Iranian patients main victims of US bans on medicine sales
Sat Nov 3, 2012 4:15PM GMT
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Kian Mokhtari
The notches on Iranian culture’s long journey through history include the defeating of armies of blood-thirsty foreign aggressors in self-defense, whereas the notches on the US politicians’ six-shooters are there to celebrate the extermination of close to a million Iranian children over the last 30 years alone. A befitting epitaph for “Alexander’s creed” after all isn’t it?
Political analyst, Kian Mokhtari
No sooner than the last US brainstorm of propping up an Iraqi dictator and arming him to the teeth with weapons of mass destruction to attack Iran backfired on Washington, the political “eggheads” on Capitol Hill have reached for their six-shooters again.
It appears that Saddam’s war to murder a million Iranians with chemical and biological weapons supplied by the West, has not been enough to quench their blood thirst.
The “cowboys” have now dug even deeper into their dark souls and via their unilateral sanctions have sought to impede the flow of lifesaving anti-cancer medicines to Iran.
Iran’s health ministry has been reporting a shortage of specialized medicines to treat certain cancers and life-threatening illnesses.
Iran produces much of its pharmaceutical needs and even exports its surplus to places like Africa at prices that the locals there can afford as part of its humanitarian responsibilities. But it cannot realistically snap into producing every type of medicine required to treat patients with previously unheard of diseases.
The fact is that following the former dictator, Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons against Iran, the rate of cancers, deformities in children and birth defects have skyrocketed requiring new drugs to treat the victims of yet another horrific legacy of US imperialism via proxy wars.
The US-led First Persian Gulf War to defang Saddam Hussein’s Iraq involved extensive bombardment of Iraq’s chemical, biological and other unconventional weapons facilities and stockpiles. Huge sways of Iraq were contaminated as a result. The massive quantities of Depleted Uranium (DU) used in the US weapons to defeat Iraqi armor and fortifications has also led to a humanitarian catastrophe there as recorded since by the Red Crescent and the Red Cross.
The problem is that frequent sandstorms containing the deadly particles waft over to Iran and travel in varying quantities as far as the most eastern provinces. The contamination is at its worst close to Iran’s borders with Iraq in the west but it is also persistent along the line of movement of weather fronts.
The pattern of DU contamination in Iran has also been mapped and reported to the UN -- not that this has done any good so far.
The incidents of birth abnormalities, defects and cancers are several times the national average in the affected areas in Iran. The cases of rare cancers and genetic abnormalities have also skyrocketed in these areas.
The latest round of unilateral Western sanctions against Tehran however, has clearly targeted the Iranian public because the sales of medicines required to treat the victims of Washington’s atrocious record in the Middle East region have been impeded by red tape causing deliberate delays and stoppages to the flow of life-saving medicines.
Tehran’s insistence on producing 20-percent enriched fuel plates for its test reactor used to produce specialized anti-cancer drugs can now not be disputed. Iranian patients cannot be expected to die every time the West chooses to have a political ding-dong with Iran over its diminishing prowess and profit margins.
Further, Iran’s energy security-related decision to produce 3.5-percent enriched fuel rods for its sole nuclear power plant in Bushehr is also fully justified given that someday soon the fossil fuels will be at a premium and the country will require alternative sources of energy to cater for its galloping domestic requirements. Judging by the nature of US sanctions’ regime over the last three decades, Iranians cannot be blackmailed into political submission through lack of energy independence.
Meanwhile Iranian people continue to be tortured via racially-motivated and politically-biased libel put out by the Western corporate mouthpieces. Let us not mince our words: the health crises presently facing Iran is manufactured and designed to hurt the Iranian people. There are no traces of even lingering doubts about what Washington’s unholy practices are aimed at.
Iranians are not unfamiliar with pain and suffering having stood up for their rights against the most vicious Western attempts at world conquest throughout history. The nation will grit its teeth and push ahead like it has always done. However, no Western mouthpiece account of history will ever be able to whitewash the sheer bloodthirsty displays of thuggery by its statesmen and bankers. Infanticide is a well-known Western trait most notably recorded on a hill outside of Acre where King Richard’s henchmen gutted thousands of Moslem women and children in search of gold during the Crusades. King Richard’s statue -- sword in hand -- stands outside of the British Parliament to celebrate his great feat of “manhood” no doubt.
The beast of Western imperialism is dying. It may be unfortunate that Iranians have to bear the brunt of its final poisonous throes, but then again its actions will indeed be proof of its monstrous nature for all future generations.
The notches on Iranian culture’s long journey through history include the defeating of armies of blood-thirsty foreign aggressors in self-defense, whereas the notches on the US politicians’ six-shooters are there to celebrate the extermination of close to a million Iranian children over the last 30 years alone. A befitting epitaph for “Alexander’s creed” after all isn’t it?
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