Afshin Nikzad points me to the following story in Farsi, and provides the translation below. He writes:
"I edit/copy parts of the article from google translate (since
it didn't give a great translation) :
The 78 years old residing in America in an interview with US
media said he had been in America for a kidney transplant and doctors had told
him he should stay on the waiting list for a kidney transplant from brain death
or that of one of his two children. All catch. But he found a third way through
his Iranian birth certificate: buying a kidney in Iran. In his interview he
talked about the youth in Iran who from the poverty and desperation were lined
up to speak to him for selling their kidney.
Doctor, "Ali Husseini,” the head of the Transplantation
Society of the Middle East in response to the letter, said: "Buying and
selling kidney with strangers is dirty and inhumane and is banned even in
countries like India and Pakistan" He also said “among all the thousands
seller in the country there is not a single a rich person, all were poor and
sold the kidney from poverty and desperation; undoubtedly they have not donated
their kidney.”
Dr. Mohammad Reza Ganji, head of the Iranian Society of
Nephrology said “… In the past two years 63% of the transplants have been
from brain-dead (that is two thousand and six hundred transplants), and this is
statistically significant in the world."
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You might to be interested to know that in a sister magazine, Tejarat Farda (and how I ended up with a weekly column there is odd but another time) I've used yourself, among others, to praise that Iranian kidney transplant regime.
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