A Vancouver Island mother who accuses her ex-husband of abducting their four children to Iran calls his recent posts on social media a “desperate attempt” to “manipulate reality.”

But Alison Azer admits she hopes the new images will lead to a breakthrough in her efforts to get back the four children she hasn't seen since last August

This week, a page called “Azer Children” emerged on Facebook that appears to have been created by Saren Azer, a doctor from Comox Valley, B.C. who is currently the subject of an Interpol, arrest warrant.

The page shows photos and videos of the couple’s four children -- Sharvahn, 11, Rojevan, 9, and Dersim, 7, and Meitan, 3 – along with several relatives. The page includes a long post signed by Saren that says the children are “well, safe and happy at last” and have “found peace” for the first time since 2012, when the author says “a campaign of terror and madness was unleashed” on their lives. It’s not clear what is meant by “campaign of terror.”

The letter continues: "When that nightmare started my children and I, each in a different way, were scarred and had become ill."

If the page was created by Saren Azer, it would be the first time the father has spoken out in his defence.

Speaking from Red Deer, Alta., Friday, Alison Azer told CTV News Channel she is not fully convinced her ex-husband wrote the post, noting the language is “awkward and stilted.” But she says she believes the post is meant to confuse her friends and supporters here in Canada.

“It’s another desperate attempt by someone who is not only a criminal, but a coward, to manipulate reality,” Azer said.

Alison has been fighting to get her children back since they left on a vacation with their father in August and never returned. She has engaged in a public campaign calling on Canadian officials and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to reach out to the president of Iran to intervene and have the children returned.

Asked for her reaction to the page and the post, Alison Azer said: “Saren has a real track record of trying to present things as they are not.”

She said Saren came to Canada in 1994 seeking asylum from Iran, saying he would be executed, and yet that is the same country he appears to have returned to. She also said he has at times aligned himself with both Jews and Muslims, and alleged that he spent several months with what she says was a terrorist organization

“This is just one more desperate attempt in a pattern of a manipulator and an abuser,” she said.

As for the images of her children smiling and laughing in parks and on bouncy castles, Azer said the photos “look very staged” and suggested that all children smile when they are on swings and bouncy castles.

Azer has said she also received four other photographs of her children, sent by contacts in Iraq, which paint a different picture. In those pictures, she said, the children look "sad, and they look like they haven't been outside for a while and their hair has lost its shine."

Azer doesn’t know whether the page will help authorities track down her children’s whereabouts, but she suggested it may be that he is becoming desperate

“From what I’ve heard from parents who have had abducted children, this is a very 11th hour, desperate ploy of a parent who knows their time as a fugitive is quite possibly coming to a close,” she said.

On the Facebook page, the author says that the Azer children had been suffering for the last few years with various physical and mental health issues that have now resolved.

The author of the post makes no mention of Alison Azer or the abduction charges Saren is facing. But he says he believes he is being followed by a “member of a private army” who he says might be dangerous.

“While at first I was a bit worried, then I reminded myself that regardless of what happens to me, my children will be cared for by those who love them and celebrate them most, their family,” the post reads.

Alison Azer’s supporters have been commenting on the posts, calling on Saren to return the children.

“You will be found and you will be punished,” wrote Stephanie Dalton.

“Love does NOT equal kidnapping and taking to a dangerous war torn country. Unreal…” wrote Trina Hennicke.

Others who claim to know Saren have also commented, leaving messages of support, saying the children appear happy and healthy.

Azer said she has plans to meet with federal government officials in Ottawa next week.

With files from The Canadian Press