WIRED Staff

Iranian Kidneys for Sale

Need a kidney? Go to Iran, they advertise them on the streets. According to an article on the BBC, every year 1,400 Iranians sell their kidneys on the international black market for organs. The market is so chaotic, that people hold signs in town squares poffering their bodlies like so many spare parts. One of […]

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Need a kidney? Go to Iran, they advertise them on the streets. According to an article on the BBC, every year 1,400 Iranians sell their kidneys on the international black market for organs. The market is so chaotic, that people hold signs in town squares poffering their bodlies like so many spare parts.

One of them reads: "Immediate offer! Kidney for sale, young man, 22, healthy, blood type O positive. Tel 09122... "

At the Tehran branch of the Association of KidneyPatients, one of many agencies set up to facilitate the trade, thereception is full of people.

A feature news report should have aired yesterday on the* BBC Two.*