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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Nose Job Boom In Iran Where Procedure Can Boost Social Status

Iranian surgeon Hamidreza Hosnani and an assistant perform surgery at his private clinic in Tehran (Credit: AFP)

All of the women in Iranian model Azadeh's family have had nose surgeries, each feeling the pressure to conform with Western beauty standards in a country where female bodies are heavily policed.

To Azadeh, smoothing out the bump in what Iranians would call the "Persian nose" she was born with proved a lucrative investment.

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