MEDICATION prices are soaring in Iran, and some treatments have become hard to find, as a US blockade and stepped-up sanctions squeeze the country’s pharmaceuticals industry.Some medicines have more than tripled in price, seven months into the US and Israel’s war on Tehran, with food prices soaring, unemployment rising and the currency hitting record lows. Iran produces more than 80 per cent of its medicines domestically but relies on imported raw materials, most of which arrived by sea before the war. 

MEDICATION prices are soaring in Iran, and some treatments have become hard to find, as a US blockade and stepped-up sanctions squeeze the country’s pharmaceuticals industry.

Some medicines have more than tripled in price, seven months into the US and Israel’s war on Tehran, with food prices soaring, unemployment rising and the currency hitting record lows.

Iran produces more than 80 per cent of its medicines domestically but relies on imported raw materials, most of which arrived by sea before the war.

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