US sanctions take toll on the ill in Iran as medicine becomes scarce
The first wave of U.S. sanctions against Iran was looming when doctors gave Aram Rawanshad the bad news.
It was early June when she learned she was suffering from endometriosis, a painful disease that occurs when tissue grows outside the uterus. It was too late for surgery, and doctors warned her to act fast before the disease spread.
Rawanshad, a 42-year-old writer from Karaj, Iran, was given a prescription and urged to stock up before supplies ran out.
She refused.
"I told the pharmacist that if I buy more than one month's supply, other patients would
