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 […]
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“Iranian Mothers for Peace” Alert the World on Sanctions and Shortage of Medicines
“Iranian Mothers for Peace,” in an open letter of January 2013 to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General, and Dr. Margaret Chan, the Director General of the World Heath Organization, have alerted the responsible world bodies and human rights organizations to the critical shortage of vital medication due to […]
Sanctions, government blamed for Iran’s drugs shortage
Doctors in Iran are trying to fend off a creeping health care crisis caused by medicine shortages, due in part to Western economic sanctions but exacerbated by government mismanagement and abuse of the system.