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you can see this same kind of situation all over the world. I still remember when I would go with my parents to  Mexico. You would see children selling all sorts of things or begging for money.

I realized at a very young age how blessed I was.

Solh va Doosti (paz a vosotros)

Nadia

an ugly scene in our capital

couple of years ago I took my non-iranina wife to Iran to meet my family. A firend had been adamantent to host us in his home the very first afternoon and I couldnt say no.I am driving if you will!!It is more like bumper to bumper turtel move.couple of guys appoarched us when we stopped at the light begging us to buy some faleh hafez or the verses of holly quran, here goes the wife poor kids somebody should do something my brother who actiualy lives there shows his sympsthy and says'yeah my dear(my wife'name) we have lots of poor pepole here in Iran.I think, oh This is uguly and I know for fact that they are at least 80% non-iranians. The requirment for being iranian is that your father is(was) iranian.

I walked in their consevation(brother&wife) informing them of my what I knew it and knew it wel.I look at my wife's wife and she dint seem to be giving me her full trust which she alway did in any other cases but she makes no objection to what I said.The guy still hanging on my window, let it go every time light goes green and cathch up to me when it goes red(damn traffic of tehran)

Ok my firend I buy it from you and I will buy 2 pieces each priced at 1000 toman only if you tell me what your nationality is(bacheh kojaei)??I am from Karaj replies back the guy a 14-15 years old boy with a perfect tehrani accent leaving no dobut about his assertion. I like dam it I guess I just lost 2000 toman and much worse I was proved wrong in the very first night in Iran with a non-iranian wife(my wife even not iranin but have a very good understanding of farsi language)!!!I reached my poket ad gave the guy his money and he gave me one faleh hafezand one verse of quran which I still have them and hold them dear, you know what? the guy is talking to me I live in karej I grew up out there but I am Afghan and I m proud of it.I am proud to be afghan he kept repeating it, he got the money and I got my face back light goes green and off we went.I guess I touched his sensitive nerve, obviously he got bothered(for which I am still sorry)by my question and after he made sure he had the money on his hand , he thought he should defend his nationality to face of an arrogant iranian guy. He was proud to be afghan and I am sorry to have been a jerk since then. I took me couple of minutes to get over the joy of proving my self right realzing I asked a very wrong question. Who cares where they come from what nationality his father had .........

regardless of their natinality they should be removed from the st of tehran and put in some sort of care, it takes money and human resources to deal with issue however we are well capable to tackle and deal with it.It is just about the time.

All walks of life

I think these kids end up in the streets from different backgrounds.  This report calls them foreign nationals kids, as in "children of illegal aliens" in America.

Some are probably Afghans, but many, probably most, are Iranians.  They may not be able to speak good farsi due to being illiterate or under-educated so they may be referred to as "foreigners".

Sometimes their parents put them to work.  But what "work"?  How much money can you make selling gums or batteries? And if you're selling gums and batteries you are better off than selling something else/illegal.

I hope they can be helped but the story of these children is everywhere in the world.  UNICEF is a UN organization who tries to shed light on the plights of children around the world.

There are some non governmental and governmental organizations in Iran that help, I suppose they are better than nothing.  I just hope they don't take advantage of these kids, like they do elsewhere, like in Kite Runner movie.

Mar gazideh az mar-e siyah va sepid mitarse.

poor kids

I am glad they are doing something about these kids. I was horrified by what I saw and was told about them last time I was in Iran. They're being abused, put to hard work and neglected.

The pictures were so sad though... those girls were so scared. Are they really orphans? I think some are being worked by their own parents.

IRANdokht