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…
FNA – Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki in a letter to Secretary General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom blasted…
Vosizneias – Seventeen members of Congress, led by Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), sent a…
Tasnim – Iran’s Health Minister said the country has amassed a reserve of strategic medicines enough to meet domestic demand for seven…
Tasnim – There is no serious shortage of pharmaceuticals in Iran, Minister of Health Saeed Namaki said. Speaking to reporters on Monday,…
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…
MNA – Iranian Health Minister Hassan Ghazizadeh says that the country needs to import more than 50% of the raw material needed…
November 21, The Iran Project – Despite what American officials claim, the United States’ hostile approach and re-imposition of illegal sanctions against the…
The Washington Post| Erin Cunningham: New U.S. sanctions on Iranian financial firms, including a bank that until recently handled most payments for…
Press TV – President of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran Alireza Marandi says the United States…
The New York Times | Nilo Tabrizy: The strain was evident in Alireza Karimi’s voice as he described his struggle to obtain…
Sputnik– The United States has amended sanctions against Iran to expand the scope of medical devices and agricultural commodities allowed for export,…
TEHRAN, Jan. 15 (MNA) – Iran’s next year budget bill has allocated 24 trillion rials (about $970 million) to help needy patients…
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…
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 currently experiencing severe shortages of Deferoxamine, the Secretary of Iranian Thalassemia Society, Mohammad Rza Mashhadi said, Kayhan News newspaper reported. Deferoxamine…
Doctors and pharmacists warn operating theatres will close as medics turn to “old drugs” to make up shortfall in vital supplies Operating theatres…
The head of the Anesthesia and Special Care Association of Iran has warned that a number of operating rooms in various Iranian…
The United States Treasury has issued a new explanation for the shortage of medical drugs and equipment in Iran. They claim the…
Sanctions against Iran are often presented as a humane alternative to war, but in fact they have caused massive economic hardship and…
In his State of the Union address President Obama said a diplomatic solution is needed now with Iran’s leaders over their ambitions…
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…
A political analyst says the United States is “murdering Iranians” in cold blood by imposing tough sanctions on the Islamic Republic, Press TV reports.…
Economic sanctions against Iran are affecting the availability of essential and life-saving drugs in the country, forcing patients to turn to an…
In an interview with BBC Persian, Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen says that his department’s assessment is that reports…
Iran news headlines on Friday include US Iranian sending medicine to Iran to avert country drug shortage; Ahmadinejad invitation to OIC summit in…
Amid strict Western sanctions and allegations of economic mismanagement, Iran is suffering a critical drug shortage. A growing number of Iranians in…
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — For the first time in more than a decade, the black market pharmaceutical peddlers are back on Nasser…
Facing acute shortage of medicines due to UN sanctions, the Iranian health Ministry has expressed its keen interest to import certain essential…
UNITED NATIONS — Young Iranian artist Sanaz Sohrabi has a mission: to raise awareness of the impact crippling international sanctions are having…
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 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…
Iranian Health Minister Marziyeh Vahid Dastjerdi has urged local banks to get currency for importing medicine into the country, Jahannews reported. “There…
By The Guardian Trade restrictions and measures imposed on Iranian banks by US and EU blamed for drug shortages A teenage Iranian…