THE scale of deepening poverty in Iran was highlighted by a hand-written advertisement, offering the sale of a human liver, posted on a shop window in the country’s western Kermanshah province today.
As the country’s economic crisis leaves Iranian families struggling to survive, Iran News Wire posted a picture of the advert online, which read: “Liver for sale. B+ blood type.”
The state-run Arman daily newspaper said in an article last October: ”Selling kidneys in our country is not a new phenomenon and has been going on for about two decades.”
It reported that a channel, with around 140,000 members, on messaging service Telegram was publishing adverts selling kidneys and livers.
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