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War, sanctions and inflation leave Iran short of hundreds of medicines

Iran's pharmaceutical sector is facing shortages of hundreds of medicines, a near-six-fold price hike for basic drugs and collapsing supply chains, as the war with the US enters its seventh month and the effects of sanctions and a naval blockade accumulate.

The shortages include roughly 90 medicines classified as essential or life-saving, according to Iranian media.

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