[5] According to the report, "Iranian girls aged 13 to 17 are targets of human trafficking gangs that are forcibly transmitted for sale and sexual services outside of Iran.
"[6] The report also mentioned the trafficking of human beings to Iranian girls who had houses in Kurdistan, Iraq, especially in Sulaimaniyah, for sex trade, and some had been taken there by smugglers.
[7] The report also noted that Iranian authorities and the Revolutionary Guards forced Afghan refugees to fight in Syria and Iraq, and that Iran had become the source and destination of men, women, and children exposed to trafficking in women and forced labor over the past five years.
[8] The 2023 U.S State Department report noted that Iran was one of eleven countries which were seen as having a documented government policy or pattern of human trafficking.
[9] According to a report from the National Security Police of the Tehran Grand Command, as well as reports from the Center of Women's Affairs and the Committee of the Organization for the Defense of Victims of Violence in 2003, the smuggling of border women and girls to the Persian Gulf Arab states, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Europe has expanded.