NCRI – Iranian news agencies reported this week on Araki triplets being put on sale by their father due to his inability to pay the hospital costs.
The babies’ father asks an amount of 40 million Tomans for each triplet at first , but agrees to 20 million Tomans after bargaining. The state newspaper ‘Arman Emrouz’ has written in this regard: “ the problem of trading babies (in Iran) is not a new one. But due to its media coverage in recent years, the sensitivity of the issue has risen. Poverty and involvement of parents in social harms are the main factors for selling babies.”
In an interview with ‘Arman Emrouz’, the head of the Iranian Social Pathology Institution has said: “selling babies is one of the issues which calls into question the human dignity as well as the social dignity. Kouroush Mohammadi adds: “it is believed that in recent decades due to issues like poverty, unemployment, growing prostitution, and serious damages to marriage, we are to a large extent faced with a growing number of orphans and foundlings.”
Mohammadi continues: “these abandoned babies were considered as foundlings in the past, but ever since the addicts and jobbers came out, the issue of trading babies was raised and a market was set up for that purpose, so that we are now faced with trading babies across the country and especially in big cities.”