Iran ranks among worst human trafficking states

Why am I not surprised. After pistachios and narcotics, they're probably IRGC's largest export. And the IR has the audacity to blame this on the U.S. as part of its "soft war against Iran":

The U.S. State Department accused Iran on Tuesday of being a major hub of human trafficking.

The State Department 2007 annual Trafficking in Persons Report listed Iran alongside Algeria, Equatorial Guinea, North Korea, Sudan, Bahrain, Oman, Syria, Burma, Kuwait, Qatar, Uzbekistan, Cuba, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela as the worse offenders.
“Iran is a source, transit, and destination country for women trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude”, the report said.
“Iranian women are trafficked internally for the purpose of forced prostitution and forced marriages to settle debts. Children are trafficked internally and from Afghanistan for the purpose of forced marriages, commercial sexual exploitation, and involuntary servitude as beggars or laborers.
“According to nongovernmental sources, Iranian women and girls are also trafficked to Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom for commercial sexual exploitation. Media sources reported that 54 Iranian females between the ages of 16 and 25 are sold into commercial sexual exploitation in Pakistan every day.

"Nothing is more threadbare than the claim of Islamists to defend Muslim womanhood. Islamist radicals (like the penny-a-marriage mullahs of Iran) are the world's most prolific pimps. The same networks that move female flesh across borders also provide illegal passage for jihadis, and the proceeds of human trafficking often support Islamist terrorists. From Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur to Sarajevo to Tirana, the criminals who trade in women overlap with jihadist networks. Prostitutes serve the terror network in a number of capacities, including suicide bombing."

More info on Iran's sex-slave trafickiong:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_21508.shtml

http://hbcdelivers.s439.sureserver.com/sex-slavery-under-the-islamic-republic-of-iran

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143868_comment.php

Prostitution thrives even in the clerical center of Qom
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC06.php?CID=606

The rate of prostitution skyrocketing:
http://www.afpc.org/idm/idm32.shtml

http://www.google.com/search?q=prostitution+in+the+islamic+republic&hl=en&start=10&sa=N

http://www.stophonourkillings.com/News/article/sid=960.html

Jihadis and whores
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HK21Ak01.html

Trafficking woman:
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/iran_sex_slave_trade
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/refs_iran.htm
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=9001