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Shackled by sanctions, Iran sends India SOS for life-saving drugs
The Indian Express ^ | Saturday, January 5, 2013 | Shubhajit Roy

Posted on 01/04/2013 6:08:01 PM PST by Jyotishi

New Delhi - Its healthcare system crippled by international economic sanctions, Iran has asked India for help to procure life-saving drugs for patients battling critical illnesses in that country.

Tehran has put in an urgent request to New Delhi for drugs to treat lung and breast cancers; brain tumours; heart ailments; infections after kidney, heart and pancreas transplants; meningitis in HIV patients; arthritis; bronchitis and respiratory distress in newborns; and epilepsy, South Block sources told The Indian Express.

On December 27, the sources said, the government forwarded the request for 28 essential medicines to Indian pharmaceutical companies. The required quantities range from 1,000 units to 5 million units and, put together, it is turning out to be the largest consignment of medicines exported from India in recent times.

Iran’s health ministry has been in constant touch with the Indian government, and a delegation of Indian pharma firms visited Tehran in early December 2012 to meet both government officials and Iranian pharma executives. On January 2, Iran’s national security adviser Saeed Jalili told a think-tank audience in Delhi that international economic sanctions on Iran were not a “threat”, but an “opportunity”.

Although trade in medicine is exempt from international sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council and the unilateral sanctions announced by the US and EU, Western banks have been declining to handle transactions.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aid; deathtothemullahs; europeanunion; healthcare; india; iran; medicine; sanctions; themullahsmustdie; waronterror

1 posted on 01/04/2013 6:08:07 PM PST by Jyotishi
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To: Jyotishi

Baloney. Just trying to pull on the heartstrings of bleeding heart liberals.


2 posted on 01/04/2013 6:10:19 PM PST by Wisconsinlady (The only thing to stop a bad person with a gun, is a good person with a gun.)
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To: Jyotishi

After what muzzies did to India recently, I hope India tells them to FO!


3 posted on 01/04/2013 6:21:13 PM PST by texson66
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

They could have avoided sanctions by not being a gang of thugs intent on triggering world war 3, and/or spent the national treasure on actual factories to produce medicines, but noooooo.

Death to the Mullahs, the Mullahs Must be Killed.

Thanks Jyotishi.


4 posted on 01/04/2013 7:22:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Jyotishi

I wonder if any of these drugs have anything to do with radiation poisonings?


5 posted on 01/04/2013 7:53:53 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Jyotishi

Can these clowns somehow turn the drugs, especially the radioactive ones, into radiological or biological weapons? Can they trade them for the technology or other substances they need to commit mass murder?

I'm sorry the Iranians are hurt by the sanctions, but they got themselves into this mess; the only way they can can get out is to restore the trust they destroyed. Unfortunately for them, that will take a long, long time ... and a complete change of leadership.

6 posted on 01/04/2013 10:42:43 PM PST by Zakeet (Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage - Mencken)
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To: SunkenCiv

Iran is one country where we really need to make an exception between the Mullahs and the Republican Guard on one and the general population on the other.

The people are really a moderate, semi-Islamic lot who trace their civilization to pre-Islamic times which was when they saw their golden age. Shia’s are not Salafists. They generally tend to be a more modern bunch. As much as we hate the Hezbollah, if you ever went to Lebanon, you won’t see women forced to dress conservatively, nor a crazy lot wanting to apply Shariah on everyone like we saw in Egypt. Same for Syria - the Alawites are far more easy on day-to-day personal freedoms so long as the regime is not threatened. The Shiite countries also tend to be far more secular in how they treat non Muslim minorities.


7 posted on 01/04/2013 11:34:17 PM PST by MimirsWell (Pganini, cmdjing, andyahoo, artaxerces, todd_hall, EdisonOne - counting my Chicom scalps)
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To: SunkenCiv

Iran is one country where we really need to make an exception between the Mullahs and the Republican Guard on one and the general population on the other.

The people are really a moderate, semi-Islamic lot who trace their civilization to pre-Islamic times which was when they saw their golden age. Shia’s are not Salafists. They generally tend to be a more modern bunch. As much as we hate the Hezbollah, if you ever went to Lebanon, you won’t see women forced to dress conservatively, nor a crazy lot wanting to apply Shariah on everyone like we saw in Egypt. Same for Syria - the Alawites are far more easy on day-to-day personal freedoms so long as the regime is not threatened. The Shiite countries also tend to be far more secular in how they treat non Muslim minorities.


8 posted on 01/04/2013 11:34:17 PM PST by MimirsWell (Pganini, cmdjing, andyahoo, artaxerces, todd_hall, EdisonOne - counting my Chicom scalps)
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To: SunkenCiv

Iran is one country where we really need to make an exception between the Mullahs and the Republican Guard on one and the general population on the other.

The people are really a moderate, semi-Islamic lot who trace their civilization to pre-Islamic times which was when they saw their golden age. Shia’s are not Salafists. They generally tend to be a more modern bunch. As much as we hate the Hezbollah, if you ever went to Lebanon, you won’t see women forced to dress conservatively, nor a crazy lot wanting to apply Shariah on everyone like we saw in Egypt. Same for Syria - the Alawites are far more easy on day-to-day personal freedoms so long as the regime is not threatened. The Shiite countries also tend to be far more secular in how they treat non Muslim minorities.


9 posted on 01/04/2013 11:34:33 PM PST by MimirsWell (Pganini, cmdjing, andyahoo, artaxerces, todd_hall, EdisonOne - counting my Chicom scalps)
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To: SunkenCiv

Iran is one country where we really need to make an exception between the Mullahs and the Republican Guard on one and the general population on the other.

The people are really a moderate, semi-Islamic lot who trace their civilization to pre-Islamic times which was when they saw their golden age. Shia’s are not Salafists. They generally tend to be a more modern bunch. As much as we hate the Hezbollah, if you ever went to Lebanon, you won’t see women forced to dress conservatively, nor a crazy lot wanting to apply Shariah on everyone like we saw in Egypt. Same for Syria - the Alawites are far more easy on day-to-day personal freedoms so long as the regime is not threatened. The Shiite countries also tend to be far more secular in how they treat non Muslim minorities.


10 posted on 01/04/2013 11:34:40 PM PST by MimirsWell (Pganini, cmdjing, andyahoo, artaxerces, todd_hall, EdisonOne - counting my Chicom scalps)
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To: SunkenCiv

Iran is one country where we really need to make an exception between the Mullahs and the Republican Guard on one and the general population on the other.

The people are really a moderate, semi-Islamic lot who trace their civilization to pre-Islamic times which was when they saw their golden age. Shia’s are not Salafists. They generally tend to be a more modern bunch. As much as we hate the Hezbollah, if you ever went to Lebanon, you won’t see women forced to dress conservatively, nor a crazy lot wanting to apply Shariah on everyone like we saw in Egypt. Same for Syria - the Alawites are far more easy on day-to-day personal freedoms so long as the regime is not threatened. The Shiite countries also tend to be far more secular in how they treat non Muslim minorities.


11 posted on 01/04/2013 11:34:46 PM PST by MimirsWell (Pganini, cmdjing, andyahoo, artaxerces, todd_hall, EdisonOne - counting my Chicom scalps)
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To: MimirsWell

Iran is made up of people who don’t want to live under the Islamic despotate, and people who do. The rest of the remarks about how moderate Shiites and Alawites are is just the same pro-Assad agitprop that pollutes FR the same way it pollutes the web.


12 posted on 01/05/2013 5:37:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: MimirsWell

What?


13 posted on 01/05/2013 7:08:07 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: Jyotishi

If they have the ability to build uranium enrichment facilities and biochemical warfare labs, why wouldn’t they have the ability to manufacture their own life-saving drug labs?


14 posted on 01/05/2013 7:13:16 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: MimirsWell

I think that many in India see the situation in the way you set out, and indeed, see Iran as a great contrast to their unstable/threatening neighbour Pakistan.


15 posted on 01/07/2013 3:20:20 AM PST by BlackVeil
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