14.01.2013, 14:30
Zitat:Iran plans to phase out dollar, euro in foreign trade: Econ. min.<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://presstv.com/detail/2013/01/14/283517/iran-to-phase-out-euro-dollar-in-trade/">http://presstv.com/detail/2013/01/14/28 ... -in-trade/</a><!-- m -->
“[Iranian] government has made up its mind to phase out vehicle currencies such as dollar and euro in its [foreign] trade,” Hosseini told reporters on the sidelines of the first meeting of the heads of Economic Cooperation Organization’s tax organizations in Tehran on Monday.
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Zitat:Iran unable to get life-saving drugs due to international sanctions<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/13/iran-lifesaving-drugs-international-sanctions">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/ja ... -sanctions</a><!-- m -->
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians with serious illnesses have been put at imminent risk by the unintended consequences of international sanctions, which have led to dire shortages of life-saving medicines such as chemotherapy drugs for cancer and bloodclotting agents for haemophiliacs.
Western governments have built waivers into the sanctions regime – aimed at persuading Tehran to curb its nuclear programme – in an effort to ensure that essential medicines get through, but those waivers are not functioning, as they conflict with blanket restrictions on banking, as well as bans on "dual-use" chemicals which might have a military application.
"Sometimes companies agree to sell us drugs but we have no way of paying them. On one occasion, our money was in the bank for four months but the transfer repeatedly got rejected," Naser Naghdi, the director general of Darou Pakhsh, the country's biggest pharmaceutical company, told the Guardian, in a telephone interview from Tehran.
"There are patients for whom a medicine is the different between life and death. What is the world doing about this? Are Britain, Germany, and France thinking about what they are doing? If you have cancer and you can't find your chemotherapy drug, your death will come soon. It is as simple as that."
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