Health minister complains to WHO over US restrictions on Iran’s access to medicine, medical equipment
FNA – Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki in a letter to Secretary General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom blasted…
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Rep. Ilhan Omar leads call on Trump administration to reduce Iran sanctions
Vosizneias – Seventeen members of Congress, led by Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), sent a…
Health minister: Iran holds reserve of strategic medicines
Tasnim – Iran’s Health Minister said the country has amassed a reserve of strategic medicines enough to meet domestic demand for seven…
No major shortage of medicine in Iran: Minister
Tasnim – There is no serious shortage of pharmaceuticals in Iran, Minister of Health Saeed Namaki said. Speaking to reporters on Monday,…
Zarif, Red Cross president discuss US food, medicine sanctions on Iran
MNA – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is on an official visit to the Swiss city of Geneva, held talks with Peter Mauer, the President of the International…
Health min. says importing medicine is a necessity
MNA – Iranian Health Minister Hassan Ghazizadeh says that the country needs to import more than 50% of the raw material needed…
US senseless sanctions target ordinary Iranians
November 21, The Iran Project – Despite what American officials claim, the United States’ hostile approach and re-imposition of illegal sanctions against the…
Fresh sanctions on Iran are already choking off medicine imports, economists say
The Washington Post| Erin Cunningham: New U.S. sanctions on Iranian financial firms, including a bank that until recently handled most payments for…
US food, medicine sanctions endanger lives of Iranian patients: Medical academy official
Press TV – President of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran Alireza Marandi says the United States…
Iranians fear medicine shortages as U.S. tightens sanctions
The New York Times | Nilo Tabrizy: The strain was evident in Alireza Karimi’s voice as he described his struggle to obtain…
US amends Anti-Iran sanctions to allow greater medical, agricultural export
Sputnik– The United States has amended sanctions against Iran to expand the scope of medical devices and agricultural commodities allowed for export,…
Iran allocates $970m to help needy patients receive medicine
TEHRAN, Jan. 15 (MNA) – Iran’s next year budget bill has allocated 24 trillion rials (about $970 million) to help needy patients…
Iranian stars petition UN over medicine shortages
Iranian luminaries have joined a campaign calling on the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, to intervene against the international sanctions that have badly hit…
Bans affecting medicine in Iran very cruel: Ayatollah Rafsanjani
Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has described as “very cruel” the US-led sanctions against the Islamic Republic that…
Iran experiencing severe shortage of Deferoxamine
Iran currently experiencing severe shortages of Deferoxamine, the Secretary of Iranian Thalassemia Society, Mohammad Rza Mashhadi said, Kayhan News newspaper reported. Deferoxamine…
Surgeons struggle in Iran as sanctions squeeze drug supplies
Doctors and pharmacists warn operating theatres will close as medics turn to “old drugs” to make up shortfall in vital supplies Operating theatres…
Drug shortage to force closure of Iranian operating rooms
The head of the Anesthesia and Special Care Association of Iran has warned that a number of operating rooms in various Iranian…
US international trade statistics on Iran trade misleading
The United States Treasury has issued a new explanation for the shortage of medical drugs and equipment in Iran. They claim the…
Havaar launches campaign to help Iranians access life saving medicine
Sanctions against Iran are often presented as a humane alternative to war, but in fact they have caused massive economic hardship and…
How sanctions deprive Iranians of basic medication
In his State of the Union address President Obama said a diplomatic solution is needed now with Iran’s leaders over their ambitions…
Organizations call for Obama to allow medicine and humanitarian trade with Iran
Washington, DC (February 4, 2013) – Twenty-five organizations called on President Obama to ensure that existing U.S. sanctions on Iran do not block access…
US sanctions murdering Iranians in cold blood: US professor
A political analyst says the United States is “murdering Iranians” in cold blood by imposing tough sanctions on the Islamic Republic, Press TV reports.…
US-led economic sanctions strangle Iran’s drug supply
Economic sanctions against Iran are affecting the availability of essential and life-saving drugs in the country, forcing patients to turn to an…
Who is responsible for medicine shortages in Iran?
In an interview with BBC Persian, Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen says that his department’s assessment is that reports…
US Iranians send medicine to avert Iran drug shortage
Iran news headlines on Friday include US Iranian sending medicine to Iran to avert country drug shortage; Ahmadinejad invitation to OIC summit in…
Iran drug shortage: US Iranians send medicine to avert crisis
Amid strict Western sanctions and allegations of economic mismanagement, Iran is suffering a critical drug shortage. A growing number of Iranians in…
Iran’s medical crisis deepens as economy sputters
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — For the first time in more than a decade, the black market pharmaceutical peddlers are back on Nasser…
Iran keen to import essential drugs from India to meet current shortage
Facing acute shortage of medicines due to UN sanctions, the Iranian health Ministry has expressed its keen interest to import certain essential…
Iranian artist’s ‘pill protest’ highlights harmful side effects of sanctions
UNITED NATIONS — Young Iranian artist Sanaz Sohrabi has a mission: to raise awareness of the impact crippling international sanctions are having…
Is Europe starving Iran of vital medicines?
Adolescents cannot be blamed for the policies of autocrats. So why did 15-year-old Manouchehr Esmaili-Liousi have to die because the West wants…
Iran plans to enhance drone capability
Iran news headlines on Saturday include Head of Iran Aviation Industries Organization remarks over Iran increasing drone capability, U.S. Congress reports on Iran’s long-range missiles, Iranian warships…
Iran’s health minister urged banks to get money for importing medicine
Iranian Health Minister Marziyeh Vahid Dastjerdi has urged local banks to get currency for importing medicine into the country, Jahannews reported. “There…
Haemophiliac Iranian boy ‘dies after sanctions disrupt medicine supplies’
By The Guardian Trade restrictions and measures imposed on Iranian banks by US and EU blamed for drug shortages A teenage Iranian…