Trump’s sanctions, inflation and a collapsing economy leaves Iran’s sick exposed
US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran earlier this year damaged more than 40 pharmaceutical companies, equipment suppliers and distributors, the spokesman for Iran’s Food and Drug Administration, Mohammad Hashemi, told Iranian state-affiliated media in June.
More than 18,000 private pharmacies across the country are now waiting to get paid by insurance companies, officials from Iran’s Pharmacists Association said at a news conference last month, with insurance debts owed to pharmacies reaching almost 800 trillion rials ($300 million) “These pharmacies can no longer afford to continue investing their own capital and then wait a year to receive their outstanding payments,” the head of the association, Shahram Kalantari, said at the time.
Washington has permitted transactions involving “agricultural commodities, food, medicine, or medical devices to Iran,” but have added some safeguards to ensure such goods are “not diverted by the Iranian regime to fund its nefarious purposes.
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