FNA - Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki in a letter to Secretary General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom blasted the re-imposition of the US sanctions against Iran, and criticized the international organizations for not taking sufficient measures to help save lives of Iranian patients. Washington's sanctions has made it ...

Vosizneias - Seventeen members of Congress, led by Reps. Ral M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday calling on the administration to dramatically reduce its sanctions against Iran, which Omar characterized as economic warfare. The letter focuses on the ...

Tasnim Irans Health Minister said the country has amassed a reserve of strategic medicines enough to meet domestic demand for seven months. Speaking at a conference in the western city of Hamedan on Tuesday, Saeed Namaki said all Iranian pharmaceutical factories and operating rooms have a reserve of strategic medicines enough to meet demands until ...

Tasnim There is no serious shortage of pharmaceuticals in Iran, Minister of Health Saeed Namaki said. Speaking to reporters on Monday, the health minister said Iran has not faced any severe shortage of medicines although the enemies have waged an economic war against the country. The medicine shortage at the present time has dropped to one-third ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Minister MohammadJavadZarif,who is on an official visit to the Swiss city of Geneva,held talkswithPeterMauer,the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. During theTuesdaytalks heldatthe UN headquarterson the sidelines of the Geneva Conference on Afghanistan, the two sides exchanged views on mutual ...

MNA Iranian Health Minister Hassan Ghazizadeh says that the country needs to import more than 50% of the raw material needed to produce medicine inside the country, adding that special, expensive and new drugs come from outside. We urgently need to use the latest scientific achievements in the health sector because people have the right ...

November 21, The Iran Project - Despite what American officials claim,the United States hostile approach and re-imposition of illegal sanctions against the Islamic Republic, especially on food and medicine, directly target Iranian nation. Earlier this month, the administration of US President Donald Trump announced the re-imposition of the toughest ...

The Washington Post| Erin Cunningham: New U.S. sanctions on Iranian financial firms, including a bank that until recently handled most payments for Irans imports of humanitarian goods, are having a chilling effect on foreign companies that help supply medicine and other medical products,economic analysts say. The trade of humanitarian goods is allowed ...

Press TV - President of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran Alireza Marandi says the United States has endangered the lives of many Iranian patients by imposing "unjust" food and medicine sanctions against Tehran. "Despite the illegality of sanctioning food and medicine, the US government is preventing access to these ...

The New York Times | Nilo Tabrizy: The strain was evident in Alireza Karimis voice as he described his struggle to obtain the diazoxide pills his father needs to lower insulin levels and fight pancreatic cancer. The medicine has to be imported, and until recently that was not a problem. But for the past three months, Mr. Karimi has not been able to ...

Sputnik- The United States has amended sanctions against Iran to expand the scope of medical devices and agricultural commodities allowed for export, the US Department of the Treasury said in a release on Thursday. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) The Treasury explained the amendment includes new or expanded authorizations ontraining, replacement parts, software ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 15 (MNA) Irans next year budget bill has allocated 24 trillion rials (about $970 million) to help needy patients receive medicine, the director of Irans Food and Drug Organization said on Tuesday. The fund has increased by 2 trillion rials (about $80 million) compared to the current year, ISNA quoted Rasoul Dinarvand as saying. A ...

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 the imports of medicineto their country. The Oscar-winning film-makerAsghar Farhadiand the acclaimed directorAbbas Kiarostamiare among dozens of prominent Iranians who have participated in ...

[caption id="attachment_29491" align="alignright" width="180"] Chairman of Irans Expediency Council Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (shown) has not been approved to run for president in Irans July 14th election.[/caption] Chairman of Irans Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has described as very cruel the US-led sanctions ...

Iran currently experiencing severe shortages of Deferoxamine, the Secretary of Iranian Thalassemia Society, Mohammad Rza Mashhadi said, Kayhan News newspaper reported. Deferoxamine is a bacterial siderophore produced by the actinobacteria Streptomyces pilosus. It has medical applications as a chelating agent used to remove excess iron from the body....

Doctors and pharmacists warn operatingtheatres will close as medics turn to "old drugs" to make up shortfall in vital supplies Operating theatres inIranare running out of anaesthetics due toa shortage of medicinecaused by the unintended consequences of international sanctions. Iranian doctors and pharmacists have warned that hospitals across ...

The head of the Anesthesia and Special Care Association of Iran has warned that a number of operating rooms in various Iranian hospitals are facing closure due to a shortage of anesthesia. Mohammad Mehdi Ghiamat said: "With the approach of the New Year holidays, only emergency cases can be taken to operating rooms, and the situation for other patients ...

The United States Treasury has issued a new explanation for the shortage of medical drugs and equipment in Iran. They claim the Iranian government is intentionally trying to exploit the problem for political purposes. A senior US Treasury official recently pointed to just-released US International Trade Statistics (USITS) to support this claim, arguing ...

Sanctions against Iran are often presented as a humane alternative to war, but in fact they have caused massive economic hardship and a social crisis in Iranian society that has reached life-threatening proportions. The U.S.-led sanctions regime is strangling the Iranian people, cutting off trade relations, financial transactions, and access to vital ...

In his State of the Union address President Obama said a diplomatic solution is needed now with Iran's leaders over their ambitions to acquire nuclear technology. These words came as sanctions are still being enforced in reaction to Tehran's nuclear programme. Those restrictions are starting to bite deeply into every day life. Iranian companies ...