{"id":13855,"date":"2012-08-30T06:19:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T10:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=13855"},"modified":"2012-08-30T06:19:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T10:19:07","slug":"western-sanctions-causing-medicine-shortages-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/08\/western-sanctions-causing-medicine-shortages-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Sanctions Causing Medicine Shortages in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/0216-special-report-iran-oil-ahmadinejad_full_600.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13856\" title=\"0216-special-report-iran-oil-Ahmadinejad_full_600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/0216-special-report-iran-oil-ahmadinejad_full_600.jpg?resize=490%2C326\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Drug Factories to Shutter as International Trade Grinds to a Halt<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>by Jason Ditz<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">US and international sanctions against Iran don\u2019t include sanctions on food or medication, which are both explicitly exempted. At least that\u2019s the theory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In practice, the sanctions have<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/huff-wires\/20120823\/ml-iran-sanctions--reach\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">ground international commerce<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">to a halt, as the Obama Administration has turned Iranian banks into global pariahs and made it impossible for Iranian companies to buy these \u201cexempted\u201d goods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Though Iran is a fairly large food producer, the lack of access to international trade is<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2012\/08\/23\/257794\/iran-medics-warn-against-upshot-of-bans\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">devastating<\/span><\/a> <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">to the nation\u2019s medical community, and in particular to patients whose medicines are either produced abroad or are produced domestically with chemicals previously imported overseas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Patients with chronic diseases like hemophilia or diabetes are at particular risk, as even a temporary lack of drugs could mean a death sentence. Iran\u2019s Hemophilia Society has issued an<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iran-emrooz.net\/index.php\/news2\/39291\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">open letter<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">warning that the shortages are putting a large number of lives at risk. With the sanctions expected to force the<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.payvand.com\/news\/12\/aug\/1117.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">closure<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">of a number of domestic drug factories in the next few months, the problem could get a lot bigger soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/08\/23\/western-sanctions-causing-medicine-shortages-in-iran\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drug Factories to Shutter as International Trade Grinds to a Halt by Jason Ditz US and international sanctions against Iran don\u2019t include sanctions on food..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,21,97,119],"tags":[229,197,199,345,211],"class_list":["post-13855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-international","category-us-news","category-war","tag-economic-exploitation","tag-imperialism","tag-iran","tag-reactionary-watch","tag-zionism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0216-special-report-iran-oil-Ahmadinejad_full_600_13855_5340d.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}