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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratclifee has told of how she has a “constant worry” about her family in Iran, saying she cannot return to the country where she was imprisoned for years.
Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh [1] were sentenced to execution by hanging in 2009 for converting to Christianity in Iran. [2] [3] [4] They were detained in the notorious Evin Prison for 259 days [5] [6] [7] where they were tortured and interrogated. [8] After gaining freedom, the two women wrote Captive in Iran which detailed their ...
Sayyed Bozorg "Moody" Mahmoody [1] (Persian: سيد بزرگ محمودى; c. 1939 – August 23, 2009) was an Iranian professor, engineer, and anesthesiologist, best-known for taking his American ex-wife Betty and their daughter Mahtob to his native country and keeping them hostage there for a period of eighteen months during the mid-1980s.
Levinson's family received a $2.5 million annuity from the CIA in order to stop a lawsuit revealing details of his work in Iran and to forestall any revelation of details regarding the arrangement between Levinson and the agency. [4] He is believed to have been held captive by the Government of Iran, [5] [6] while Iran does not acknowledge his ...
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Fatemeh Sepehri was born in 1964. She married and had a daughter. [1] Her husband was killed in the 1980s, during the Iran-Iraq War. [1] [2] After his death, the Foundation of Martyrs and Veteran Affairs confiscated Sepehri's belongings, telling Sepehri they would be returned to her daughter once she was a legal adult.
Mahtob Maryam Mahmoody (Persian: مهتاب محمودى; born September 4, 1979) [1] is an American author who wrote the autobiographical memoir My Name is Mahtob, [2] [3] which depicts her perspective of her family's story when she and her mother, Betty Mahmoody, were held captive by her father, Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody, in his country of birth, Iran, for a period of 18 months during the mid ...