{"id":30898,"date":"2021-12-24T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=30898"},"modified":"2021-12-26T17:32:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T16:32:35","slug":"iran-selling-hair-to-make-a-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2021\/12\/iran-selling-hair-to-make-a-living\/30898\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Selling Hair to Make a Living"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A story of Iranian women and girls who are forced to sell their hair to make a living.<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Poverty in Iran, a country with many natural resources and wealth, has become a sad story depicted in many ways, one worse than the other. \u00a0Below is one of these sad stories. A story<\/a> of people who are forced to sell their hair to be able to survive the cruel situation in the country created by the selfish and miscreant mullahs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She ties her hair tightly behind her head, gave tissue to the little Paria, and this time she said in a firm, emotionless tone, \u2018If you cry again, I will not buy your hair, then you cannot buy a tablet.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paria is eight years old. Her body is so small that she is lost in the mass of her golden hair, sitting on the barber chair she played a nervous bit with her little leg and cries when she hears the last sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her mother is exhausted, grabs the girl by the shoulders and looks at her sharply, and says to the hairdresser: \u201cNo! She is not crying anymore, you cut it short. And makes room for the hairdresser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paria grabs a tissue, wipes her tears, and for the last time she moves her hands over her golden hair, finally, she closes her eyes tightly and holds her breath and the rustling sound of the scissors fills the atmosphere of the barber saloon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her mother, while staring at the floor mosaics, thinks how she could even explain that to her. With the 2 million tomans gained from Paria and her mother will buy a secondhand tablet for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The barber Sudabeh frustrated said: \u201cIn the four months since I started shopping for hair, I have seen so much poverty <\/a>and helplessness of my clients and cleaned so many tears of teenage girls<\/a> and young people from this chair that I feel depressed. Buying long, thick hair and then selling it to hairdressers who attach it to clients\u2019 hair to keep their hair thick and long for a while is a good profit, but it\u2019s not worth the bad things you must see.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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