SIM cards go for $530 in Iran

We just discovered another reason why we're glad we don't live in Iran: $530 SIM cards for cellphones. Apparently SIM cards (the little plastic cards with a chip on them that you need to use most cellphones), and thus mobile phone lines, are so hard to come by there that people are lining up at post offices and banks to try and buy them, even at that exorbitant of a price. And that's not even counting the cost of the handset which you'll have to put the SIM into.