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so forth was sold for 2-4 billion Rials (almost 52,600-10,500 dollars) in the
Iranian market. As pressures from international rights groups as well as civil
society and human rights activists in Iran increased, the government of the
United States of America resorted to theatricalities by apparently considering
special facilities for the export of medicines to Iran. US Treasury Department,
which was in charge of imposing and enforcing most financial and banking
sanctions against Iran, released a statement in 2013 in which it noted that
the United States considered itself committed to establish humanitarian