University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 28, 1988
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Woman faces battle after son abducted to Iran
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In the week since he was hospitalized, Sharon Hadadi has been haunted by a wolf.
One has her trapped in Iran, the country she fled years ago, and where authorities believe her son Joey is living today. The second depicts a life without her son, who is also have been abducted in Kansas City by his Iranian father and flown out of the country.
Hadladi, 32, is trying to find her son and Kansas City. But international obstacles make it difficult.
The United States and Iran have no diplomatic relations and Iran prevents federal authorities from extraditing Hossein Haddadi, Sharon's former husband. His custody rights are protected by the laws of his homeland.
To find her son, Haddadi may be forced to do what her ex-husband's relatives wanted, which is return to Iran and reunite with Joey's father.
She said she seriously was considering
helping her dog to get grazed Joey in
trrap and bring him back.
"My worst nightmare is going back to Iran," said Haddadi, a pharmaceutical technician. "No. no. My worst nightmare is to live without my son."
On Nov. 18, Joey's father arrived at his mother-in-law home to pick up Joey for the weekend. He had been granted visitation when Jackson County Judge William Ely visited her in March. The visits were on the condition that he not take the boy out of the state.
Hoseine Haddadi pr o mised to take his son to a pizza parlor, which kept Joey from crying as he usually did when his father took bim for the weekend. Sharon Haddadi said.
But on the afternoon of Nov. 20, Haddadi did not bring the boy back to his grandmother's home, which was required in the divorce decree.
The boy's mother and grandmother rushed to Hossein Haddadi's home *saw* one in no one
the house. A neighbor later told them that a taxi had been idled outside the home the day before while a child waited on the front porch.
Since then, police have confirmed that a cab took Haddad, 40, and a child from the house to Kansas City International Airport, in connection with the Mills of the Kansas City Police Department.
"We have no reason to doubt they are in Iran." Mills said.
Sharon Haddadi was certain of this Friday when she and a reporter telephoned her ex-husband's relatives in Isfahan, Iran. A relative told her the father and son were in Iran, and urged Sharon Haddadi to move to Iran to be with Joey and her former husband.
In Iran, fathers have the legal and religious rights to keep their children in certain conditions, authorities said. Civil law generally provides a son's custody to the father if he becomes a mother in 2 years. Paternal custody of a daughter is granted after she reaches age 7.
The U.S. State Department offered little encouragement, with a spokesman saying his best advice is for Sharon Haddadi to find a good lawyer. Police in Kansas City were preparing an arrest warrant against Hossein Haddadi for interference of custody, but they were not optimistic it would do any good.
The couple met when Sharon Haddadi was 17, and working at a taco stand in Kansas City. They married in 1974 and moved to Wichita.
In 1978, the couple moved to Iran where he pursued a career and she learned the Persian language. The next three years were marked by national unrest and horror for her as the Ayahollah Ruhullah Khomeini grew more powerful. Curfews were imposed, dancing illegal, women wore black, and Sharon Haddad learnied to dack at the sound of gunfire.
The Haddadis returned to Kansas City, where Sharon gave birth to Joey, whose full name is Mortaza Joseph Haddadi, in July 1984. But her husband lost his job, and
family returned to Iran for a few months in the midst of war with Iraq.
In less than a year, the family returned to Kansas City.
One year ago, Haddadi accused her husband of physical and verbal abuse. She and her son moved out.
Judge Ely said when he granted Hossein Haddadi extensive visitation rights, he thought it was proper at the time.
"You do your best to exercise good judgment." Ely said. "I wouldn't have done it had I been convinced at the time that this would happen."
But Millard Aldridge, the mother's attorney, disagreed with the ruling, saying that Hossein Haddadi had lost his job and had no clear reason to stay in Kansas City.
"In the judge's chambers, I said, 'This guy is emotional. He's from Iran. Let's see if he settles down and gets a job here,' but Ely discounted the argument, Aldridge said.
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