True of Iran

Handwritten notes on walls advertising human body parts for sale Iranians are selling their body organs to make ends meet Iran, Dec. 4, 2018 - Here’s a sight that has sadly become all too common in Iran: Handwritten notes on walls advertising body parts for sale, complete with blood type, health state, the age of seller and phone number to contact. This is how Iran’s poor are selling their own health to make ends meet. What makes the situation even more tragic that every day, more of the country’s youth join the ranks of body organ sellers. These are youth who are suffering from the corrupt policies of the ruling regime and resort to desperate measures such as selling kidney, livers, retina… Outrageously, state-run medical centers and official hospitals and other institutions tied to Iranian officials make stellar profits from intermediating the process of selling body organs of poor people. Among these institutions is the Association of Kidney Patient...

Ivan Sheehan Tehran’s Influence Operations a Threat to Journalistic Independence For decades, Tehran’s theocratic rulers have gone to great lengths to m ake inroads in Western media outlets once notable for upholding commitments to journalistic independence. These efforts have been so successful that many such organizations are now threatened from within by assets – often disguised as journalists – portraying Iran as the victim of US-led interference and even a looming war. These instruments of propaganda are used to demonize the regime’s opponents at key moments and stave off basic freedoms that would cause the regime to collapse like a house of cards. Many of these so-called journalists of Iranian origin previously worked for Iran's state-controlled media, and some parrot the regime’s talking points as if they are still on the payroll. Most have found comfortable homes in left-leaning media outlets in the West, including MSNBC,...