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The Christian Science Monitor

TEHRAN AND KASHAN, IRAN; AND ISTANBUL, TURKEY — Parinaz could see the growing impact of Iran’s deepening economic chaos every day while riding the Tehran subway. To make ends meet, more and more Iranians had gone underground to sell cheap Chinese goods to passengers.

But it was one particular sight that illustrated for Parinaz the depths to which US-led sanctions and Iran’s economic mismanagement have brought financial hardship: A young woman who once had the money to pay for a nose job – the plastic surgery was obvious – was selling trinkets in a subway station, and being told by a policeman it was illegal to do so.

“What should I do? I need to live, right?” she shouted loudly at the policeman, heard by all the daily commuters in the station. “Should I sell myself then? If I can’t make money this way, I would have nothing but my body….”