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.”