Dear readers, I want to tell you the story of my former neighbor-Zohra. She was always joyous and cheerful, shestudied at the medical university and graduated from it successfully. We often met at the street in our quiet lane and I always asked how the things were going on, because I knew that Zohra’s life was not easy-her father died in the second half of the 1980s in the Iraqi war and her mother worked alone to raise her family. Zohra had two younger siblings. But recently I passed via Zohra and stopped only when she called me by name. I could not recognize her-she was so pale, despite the July Tehran sun, and so thin.
'What happened, Zohra? Why are you so thin?'. I asked. 'Don’t even ask! It is all because of surgery! Haven’t you heard that I have recently sold my kidney? And now I am sick!'… What could I tell her? She is so young and already half-disabled. And it is not the sole case, since unofficial price on kidney here is about $10,000.
For this reason, many unemployed Iranians prefer this way to settle their financial problems quickly and also to pay for wedding parties and other family festivities… It is inexplicable and unclear to me, since even by medical indicators, having just one kidney may cause numerous implications, but poverty is a way not only to this…
As a whole, the situation in the kidney trade in our country is too dark and tough. On one hand, we can be proud that it... >>>
The Terrorist regime has announced that it is giving away $25 million to drought devastated Somalia but Iranians are selling their kidneys just to make ends meet.
//www.isna.ir/ISNA/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-1823263&Lang=E
All the petrodollars Iran accumulates every year goes out to assist the needy in South Lebanon, Syria and Somalia but yet Iranian teachers and workers have not been paid their wages. Iranian compatriots are being treated like third-class citizens, 8 of whom being executed every hour and with no future ahead for most of them. Even the borgeois Iranians of noth Tehran are starting to eat from their savings.
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