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Nature 436, 460 (28 July 2005) | doi:10.1038/436460a; Published online 27 July 2005

Sanctions should not apply to biomedical research

Ahmad Jalili1

  1. Division of Immunology, Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, General Hospital–AKH, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090, Vienna, Austria

I was pleased to read your News Feature "The brains trust of Tehran" (Nature 435, 264–265; 2005), which reminded me, and probably many young Iranian scientists raised after the revolution, of our enthusiasm for scientific research at university, despite access to only the most basic of equipment.It is disappointing for me to see the effects that the sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States are having on basic biomedical research.

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