Iranian-Americans Send Medicine Home as Sanctions Hit Drug Supplies
Sanctions Cripple Iran's Drug-Making Industry
As the Obama Administration continues to impose broader sanctions on Iran, the official focus is on how much less oil Iran is able to export. Yet the sanctions have done huge damage to civilian industry, including medicine.
With trade never all that easy for Iran since the Revolution, the nation manufactures most of its own medications. But while the US has nominally relaxed sanctions on medicine sales, the inability to pay for mass imports of completed drugs, and difficulty at importing the raw materials for the domestic plants, has caused major shortages.
Its terrifying for Iranians whose lives depend on drugs which may not be available much longer, while Iranian-Americans are doing their best to get the medicine in the US and import it directly to family back home.
That’s not so easy, as even though the US “exempts” medicines from their sanctions banking sanctions keep Iranians from buying them outright. Families in the US often struggle to find doctors willing to ignore the law and sell them medicine for a patient on the other side of the planet, who they’ve never seen and whose symptoms they can’t directly confirm. Individual shipments of prescriptions is far from an efficient way of doing things, but as a matter of life and death the process will continue so long as people can get away with it.
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Augustbrhm
January 12th, 2013 at 2:25 am
God bless america and the zionist and may they live in perfect health to continue their agression on hapless humans.
MarketingFile
January 12th, 2013 at 6:24 am
… "They hate us for our freedoms" … takes a whole new meaning .
I am just speechless …. How can we live with ourselves …. Sick people are suffering and both governments are acting as nothing is going on . Just goes to show you that no matter what country, culture or religion All governments are corrupt .
baz
January 12th, 2013 at 11:11 am
we are such a-holes…
VonSpock
January 12th, 2013 at 11:23 am
Or at least that nothing has changed, despite the campaign posters, since Clinton killed a million or so Iraqis by doing the same thing. I wonder if we'll get to hear Hillary tells us that all these innocent deaths are worth it?