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.”
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
The Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI



