Overview

• The 36-year-old Iranian architect and her 18-month-old son were stranded after traveling to Tehran on June 5 to meet the child’s maternal grandparents when conflict intensified
• Italian Foreign Ministry and the Italian Embassy in Tehran organized a ground convoy that guided the family through security checkpoints into Azerbaijan
• During the nine-hour overland journey they coped with shortages of milk, diapers and fuel, and faced a nearly seven-hour delay at the Astara border crossing
• They reunited with father Salvatore Politi, a Parma gynecologist, in Baku before boarding a flight that brought them back to Milan Malpensa
• Now settled in Parma, the mother has expressed deep gratitude to Italian authorities, local officials and Carabinieri escorts for their swift humanitarian assistance