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Iranians: Surge in Foreign Drug Prices Causing Hardship

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Iranians say prices of foreign pharmaceuticals have surged in recent weeks because of the strengthening U.S. dollar, causing hardship for the sick and inciting anger toward people seen as profiting from the situation. In Tuesday’s edition of VOA Persian’s Straight Talk call-in show, callers from inside Iran accused the government of failing to deal with the problem. The Iranian rial weakened to a record low of 60,000 to the dollar on the free market last week, on concerns that the...

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