> that should provide him the satisfaction above everything else

Being a good parent above all other considerations is not a universally held moral.

We can assume that it’s one that the subject shares though, considering how much risk he and his wife were willing to tolerate to get their son better treatment.

What him and his wife were willing to risk: moving to Norway, when one of them was Norwegian, from Iraq.

The article makes it very clear he had planned to give up his career, and they had to effectively smuggle themselves out of the country. The government was tracking him so they knew who to grab if they nationalized the oil.