What Sanctions Do

Having been banned from conducting international financial transactions led many pharmaceutical companies to bankruptcy and therefore raised the price
for drugs dramatically. These companies’ being wiped out of the market was not only their owners’ concern anymore; it was also the concern for thousands of patients whose lives depended on those medications.

With a quick look at Iran on those days, we could see an invisible connection among people because of the shared pain and challenges they were facing.
This difficult situation made living so unbearable for citizens, especially for patients and their families, that sometimes going through one day seemed like a century.