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Iran

Drone, Sanctions affecting Medicine, Intensify US-Iran Tensions

Juan Cole 11/12/2012

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Among President Obama’s first decisions after his reelection was to further increase already severe sanctions on Iran. Just before that, Iran shot at a US drone it claims was spying on Iranian vessels in the Gulf.

Russia Today reports:

Obama’s sanctions regime, it is argued, is already damaging Iranian public health. Medicines are not getting in or are too expensive. Medical and other infrastructure is suffering from Iran’s inability to import from Europe or inability to pay for imports because the US has had it kicked off major bank interchanges.

Iran is said to face difficulties in finding spare parts for its airplanes. Now that Europe has cut Iran off, there is a steel shortage.

The International Monetary Fund expects Iran’s economy to contract by about a point this year, and to grow by a point next year. That economic performance is anemic compared to 2010, when Iran grew about 6%.

Russia Today reports on the boycott

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About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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