Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody

Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody
سيد بزرگ محمودى
Born1938 or 1939
Died (aged 70)
OccupationAnesthesiologist
Spouse
(m. 1977; div. 1989)
ChildrenMahtob
External videos
Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody news interview

Sayyed Bozorg "Moody" Mahmoody (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.