Advertisement for Selling a Heart in Tehran
One of the readers of Khabar Online sent a photo of an advertisement for selling a heart to this media outlet.
The Vice President of the Iranian Organ Donation Association’s Board of Directors says that perhaps a few hundred people annually contact us and the Ministry of Health, claiming they have been defrauded in this manner.
There are individuals who roam the corridors of transplant centers and identify those in need of organs. For example, they find out that a person needs a lung, heart, or liver and offer them a price of 300 million tomans, with an upfront payment of 50 million. Once they receive the upfront payment, they disappear.
Nowhere in the world, except for kidneys, can an organ be completely removed from a living person.