[lbo-talk] Wealthy Iranians embrace plastic surgery

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 10/1/06, uvj at vsnl.com <uvj at vsnl.com> wrote:
> BBC News
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/
>
> Last Updated: Friday, 29 September 2006
>
> Wealthy Iranians embrace plastic surgery
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5391910.stm
>
> By Frances Harrison
> BBC News, Teheran
>
> It is eight in the morning in the plastic surgeon's office and Hussein is
> preparing for an operation.
<snip>
> Hussein, who is a university student with a wealthy father involved in trade
> with China, says he met a woman the other day who asked why a boy needed to
> worry about his looks so much.
>
> "I was shocked because everyone would love to have a more beautiful face,"
> he says.
>
> It's becoming increasingly common for Iranian men to have cosmetic surgery.

That is very good news.  It's about time that men begin worrying about
what they look like in women's eyes.

IMHO, Rafsanjani could certainly use a major makeover!
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rafsanjani.jpg>

Though whatever he looks like, he's usually up to no good.
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Yoshie
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