Iran: Unborn Babies for Sale!!..

A bitter, horrible and repeating development in Iran

Shocking report on the market for unborn babies

In Iran there are newborns being sold before ever opening eyes in this world. This is the bitter truth of today’s Iran under the mullahs’ rule. Unborn babies sold before birth.

Report: Mahmoud Reza M., a smuggler, admitted of buying 9 newborn boys, and selling them each for 90 million rials (around $2,500).

Numerous other news reports from Iran indicate: Dr. “L” has been arrested in relation to buying and selling newborns. Ms. Emric has also been arrested. A physician has admitted to selling 8 newborn babies before their birth. A nurse admits to selling 35 newborns. Measures have been taken against the newborn selling networks in the cities of Arak, Isfahan, Shiraz and Tehran. A woman who had sold her child for 210 million rials to a beggar, is now seeking to seal deals worth twenty to thirty million rials ($570 to $850) to sell newborns in hospitals.

An assessment of various such cases in Iran sheds light on 145 newborns being sold for a total price of 50 million rials, in the city of Isfahan alone.

Considering the fact that women in Iran – already under pervasive and institutionalized discrimination – are the most vulnerable branch of society make it obvious why they are the main sellers of newborns. In each deal there first is a party who present the goods, and then the buyers making the demands based on their own specific objectives.

And the spate of suppliers:

- My husband left me when I got pregnant, and I sold our newborn baby.

- I was a drug addict and I couldn’t pay for my drugs. If the child stayed with me, he too would have had a miserable life like mine. Wherever he is, he is better off than he would ever be with me.

- My husband was arrested when I was pregnant. I barely made ends meet for myself and the other children. I was forced to sell this one.

- I was pregnant when my husband was arrested. I had no choice but to sell the child to come up with his bail. My heart is with my child. If my husband is freed and if I am able I will buy back my child.

- I don’t know who his father is. I sold him to a couple who didn’t have children.

- I made the deal before giving birth, so it wouldn’t be hard to break off from the baby after giving birth.

- I can’t pay for my husband’s drugs. Where am I going to get money to pay for my child?

- My husband and I are unemployed and we can’t keep the newborn due to poverty. So I sold the child.

- I unintendedly became pregnant from a forced marriage.

- Living in the streets is nowhere to raise a child…

Last year, meaning under the “moderate” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, 280 drug addicted women lost their lives on the streets. Where would they be if they had a newborn? Such a wide sphere of suppliers naturally has its own demand. If we eliminate from the list the number of couples who cannot have a natural child and buy a newborn through illegal means, then we would be faced with painful faiths for these children, breaking the heart of any human being. The tragic part of all this is the painful fates of the newborns.

Most of these newborns are HIV positive even before birth. Many others are born weak and impaired due to their parents being drug addicts. Most of these newborns are sold to one day roam the streets begging, and once again their “mothers” take them into their arms to go out begging with each other. Various networks of beggars rob these children of their eyes or maim them to make the scene of their begging even more deplorable.

A number of such newborns fall into the hands of human traffickers, robbing them not only of their precious childhood, but literally of their body parts to be sold on the black market. Many of these newborns lose their lives in the process.

In the eyes of these innocent newborns one can read this sentence: “I wish Mom would have killed me before I was born.”

This deep wound is not healed by boycotting beggars with children along their side, or launching special patrols to hunt down newborn-selling mothers and the purchasing networks, or by holding criminology discussions in this regard.

This is especially true in Iran under the mullahs where there is no system to even implement their own laws. Such plans fail in addressing this tragic phenomenon. First, one has to answer this question: Why should there even be such a supply and demand to provide the grounds to actually “purchase” a human child?

Read this news report carefully:

Officials at a hospital nursery at Tehran’s Yaft Abad had taken one of the newborn twins of a mother hostage for 27 days until she paid the remaining hospital fees. The mother of these twins had first paid 17 million rials (nearly $500). However, in the hospital she was told since she gave birth to twins the fees added up to 70 million rials (around $2,000), and they took one of the twins as hostage. Therefore, this poor mother had to sell her belongings to receive her second twin from the hospital. Truly, if this mother hadn’t possessed this sellable property, what decision was she to make?

This was a supplier.

According to a nurse in some hospitals traders pay the hospital bills for poor pregnant woman as the down payment for purchasing the newborn. Then they sell the newborn child at extremely high prices.

And this is a buyer!!!

Young pregnant girls nearing maternity receive offers from traders, and then the deal is made with pre-birth sale, according to this nurse.

Here is the roots of these horrific pains that have recently engulfed the already deprived Iranian people:

Due to vast plundering by the ruling regime’s top brass the country’s social security system, has no program at all to provide coverage for such desperate women in need. That is why one method to make ends meet for these women is repeatedly selling their newborns. When a women’s husband is jailed for some reason, which state organization or institution is there to provide for her? When a woman’s husband suddenly abandons her, in what state organization can she seek refuge and support? Which widow in Iran is supported by the mullahs’ regime? Which entity responds to the living status of single mothers? How are homeless women, as confirmed by senior regime officials of having high education, actually supported by the state? Who is to be held accountable for the existing inequality and discrimination women face in the job market?

The bitter truth is from the ruling mullahs’ perspective these problems are not considered “vice” to take action to resolve it. Their “virtue” is crackdown against women, throwing as many behind bars as possible to maintain their establishment safe and stymie the force of change that exist in women that possess existential threats for the mullahs.

However, there is hope amidst all this cruelty, inequality and deep social faults in Iran.

Hope and belief in overthrowing the entire corrupt ruling regime of the mullahs in Iran. Hope and belief in establishing a united line consisting, in fact, of these very women that are suffering in pain and deprivation as we speak. The lines of an all-out opposition movement led by women. This provides women the motivation and courage to remain in the field and fight against the misogynist mullahs in Iran. Let us hope for the day when one can bear witness the shining brightness in the eyes of newborns, as a sign of change for a better future in Iran.