The young woman’s dark bangs cover her brows. She’s wearing a purple hoodie and a sweatshirt bearing, above her baby bump, the simple question: “What’s up?” Standing amid the remnants of some wooden furniture and a few pieces of rolled-up carpet, she says she’ll quit crystal meth before the baby is due, and her husband will, too.

It could be a scene in any Western capital, but this is Tehran, and the young woman—featured last year in a documentary by TV Plus, Iran’s only internet TV station—is one of the country’s spiraling number of homeless female addicts.

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