The US Treasury Department, responding to widespread criticism that US financial regulations have depressed sales of foreign medicine and other humanitarian items to Iran, on Thursday [July 25] issued an advisory that seeks to encourage these sales by underlining that they are not subject to US sanctions and expanding the list of medical devices that can be sold to Iran without a license.
The advisory, obtained shortly before its official release by Al-Monitor, does not, however, establish an authorized channel for transactions between US and non-sanctioned Iranian banks, reducing the chances that it will substantially boost US sales of food and medicine or resolve a host of other problems that complicate humanitarian transactions between the two countries.