On September 30, the reformist “Shargh” daily published an interview with the U.S. State Department’s Persian spokesman, Alan Eyre, in which he was asked about the historic telephone conversation between U.S. President Barack Obama and his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rohani, and the dispute over Iran’s nuclear activities. “Shargh” posted the interview together with a […]
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Majlis Representative: All We Can Do Is Ask
“There is No Medicine; Remain on the Waiting List” When some callers ask for medicine which is not available in drugstores, pharmacists ask them to leave their phone numbers on the waiting list. And when they ask when the medicine may be available, the response they get is “nobody knows.” Sometimes callers are asked […]
Q&A: Iran’s Medical Shortages: Who’s Responsible?
For two years, reports have surfaced describing medical supply shortages in Iran, some with devastating consequences, as debate continues to rage about who’s responsible – the Iranian government or the sanctions regime. Siamak Namazi, a Dubai-based business consultant and former Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, admits the Iranian […]
Bread shortage leads to protests
Bread shortages in Western Azerbaijan Province have heightened in the past week Fars news agency reports. The report indicates that protests have been especially evident in the city of Naghadeh. Similar shortages have also been reported in cities such as Piranshahr, Takab and Boukan. Fars removed this news item from its website only hours […]
Canada freezes trade with Iran over nuclear program, human rights
Canada will freeze all remaining trade with Iran to protest the Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and its human rights record, Foreign Minister John Baird said on Wednesday. Canada, which has had increasingly poor relations with Iran for more than a decade, had already imposed a series of trade sanctions. In 2012, bilateral trade was worth […]
Lack of anesthetics and shutting down the operation rooms in Iran
The head of anesthesia and urgent cares of Iran warned seriously about lack of anesthetic in Iran and said “because of lack of anesthetic for operation rooms some of private and governmental hospitals in Tehran are in danger of shutting down.”according to Mehr news report, Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Qiamat claimed that “the latest follow […]
Blocking Medicine to Iran
Patients in Iran are dying of treatable diseases because of shortages in life-saving medicines. The past year has been nothing short of catastrophic for the Iranian health-care sector: Imports from American and European drug makers in 2012 were down by an estimated 30 percent since 2011, and they continue to […]
New Pressure On Iran After UN Report
Iran is facing renewed pressure from world powers after a new United Nations report said Iran has begun installing advanced centrifuges at its main uranium enrichment plant.
Iran rial hits ‘all-time dollar low’
Iran’s currency plummeted to an all-time low on Saturday, registering a more than 21-percent drop in a span of two weeks against the US dollar, currency tracking websites and money changers said.
MP says cutting drug subsidies same as “killing patients”
A member of Iranian Parliament’s health commission says that cutting the subsidized foreign currency available for medical drugs is equivalent to “killing patients across the country.”