119 infants have been abandoned in the streets of Alborz Province from March 2015 to December 2016, according to the figures announced by the Welfare Organization of Alborz Province (central Iran).
Daryoush Bayat-Nejad from the Welfare Organization of Alborz, made the following comment on January 14, 2017: “Last year, the Welfare Organization of Alborz accepted 295 children, 77 of whom had been abandoned. Another 42 abandoned infants were accepted from March to December 2016.” (The state-run ISNA news agency – January 14, 2017)
Abandoning or selling newborn infants has turned into a common practice in Iran under the rule of the clerical regime because in the absence of any government support or job opportunities for women, poverty compels many destitute women to give up their children.
