The Guardian newspaper published an article about the increasing popularity of direct sales opportunities among young Iranians trying to cope with the economic downturn in the country. However, experts warn of the dangers of illegal pyramid schemes taking advantage of the situation.
It was a cold rainy day. A woman in her late 30s waited on the platform for the next subway train. She held her three-year-old daughter, wrapped in a blanket, underneath her long black chador to protect her from the wind. The train arrived and she got in.
Maryam is a mother of two. Her husband is self-employed and she works as a caretaker in a kindergarten, taking her younger child everyday with her to work.
“With the money we earn, we must live day by day,” she told me on the