Betty Mahmoody (née Lover; born June 9, 1945) is an American author and public speaker best known for her book, Not Without My Daughter, which was subsequently made into a film of the same name.
Betty asked Mahtob to make sure Moody, a medical doctor, didn’t give her an injection as she feared it may have been lethal.
[4][5] Mahmoody compiled stories of other parents whose foreign spouses estranged them from their children in the book For the Love of a Child (1992).
[citation needed] Mahmoody is a devout member of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod like her daughter Mahtob.
[6] In 1992 she was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, by Ferris State University as an honoris causa initiate.