A child used for begging purposes can now be rented in Iran for around $5 per day. And such children are sold for less than $700, according to a state official.
This type of renting and sales are carried out in areas such as Behesht-e Zahra, Tehran’s main cemetery, said Farahnaz Rafe, president of Iran’s Red Crescent Volunteers Organization.
Rafe raised this issue on February 29th in an interview with the state-run Tasnim news agency (associated to the Quds Force, the foreign wing of the Revolutionary Guards).
This social dilemma has specifically grown amongst homeless women sleeping in the streets, Rafe added.
At a time when Iran fails to provide detailed figures on the number of homeless women and attempts to minimize this very serious social crisis, there are numerous signs of evidence showing the number of homeless women rising.
Studies show of the 5,000 of the 15,000 homeless people across the country are women, said Shaheendokh Molvardi, Hassan Rouhani’s deputy in women and family affairs, in an interview on  July 11th, 2015 with the state-run ILNA news agency. In other words one third of the country’s homeless people are women.
There are 25,000 homeless people in Tehran alone, of which 3,000 are women, said Adel Mazari, head of the social commission in the Iran Major Cities Secretariat in an interview on February 9th with ILNA. He indirectly referred to the root of this crisis and said cultural measures for a starving individual who cannot make ends meet for his/her family is pointless.
The International Transparency Organization has published a list of corrupt countries in the world for 2015, based on which Iran was ranked 130th in administrative and financial corruption.