A B.C. mother who hasn’t seen her children in months after her husband allegedly abducted them to the Middle East says the prime minister is not doing enough to help and “this country has let these kids down.”

Alison Azer last saw her daughters, Sharvahn, 11, Rojevahn, 9, and her sons Dersim, 7, and Meitan, 3, in August, when her ex-husband Saren Azer left with them for a European vacation that she never wanted them to take. They never came home.

Azer says her children were first taken to the volatile Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Now, she says she believes they are in Iran.

She says she has friends and contacts in the region who have sent her newspaper clipping photos showing her ex-husband in the city he grew up in, Mahabad.

She’s also heard from people who have seen her kids playing in the courtyard of her former-mother-in-law, as well as at a local wedding celebration.

While it appears her children are safe, the people who are caring for them don’t speak English, and Azer worries they must feel helpless and alone.

“They spent five months in a war zone that was absolutely bleak and remote, Now, they’re at least in a city where there are other family members,” Azer told CTV’s Canada AM Friday.

“I think these children are traumatized and terrified and have no idea what’s going on.”

For the sixth time in nine months, Azer is heading to Ottawa to try to press for a short meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She’s frustrated that nothing appears to have been done diplomatically, either in Iraq or Iran.

“I understand the government’s position that they’re refusing to pay a ransom, but to refuse to pick up the phone and call another head of state over nine months over four Canadian kids, it doesn’t make any sense,” she said.

Azer has met with Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion, and while that meeting was pleasant, it wasn’t enough, she says.

“You know, everyone’s really nice when they meet me and they show compassion. But there seems to be this disconnect between the compassion and the courage and conviction,” she said.

“I’m not going away. So the sooner that this government exercises its gravitas on the world stage and sticks up for four kids who should have never been taken out of this country – it’s got to happen. They’ve got to show leadership right at the top office of this country.”

The RCMP has publicly issued a Red Notice on Interpol – the highest level -- calling for Saren Azer’s arrest.

Saren is a doctor who came to Canada in 1996, and who has done humanitarian work in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq every year since 2007. His ex-wife is now worried he will try to head back there to escape arrest, putting her children at risk in a region that is facing daily fighting.

Azer wants the federal government to make sure that borders are closed to him and that he's found and deported to Canada to face charges.

Azer grew emotional as she explained that she’d promised her children that she would always fight for them.

“I have a duty to my children that I will fight for them as long as I’m alive,” she said.

“They asked me before they left: ‘Mummy can we count on you?’ I said, ‘You can always count on me; I will never let you down.’ This country has let these kids down; I have not. And I will stand for them and with them, with legions of people beside me and behind me. We won’t stop until these kids come home.”