Virginia Pietromarchi

Virginia Pietromarchi is an Italian freelance journalist. She holds an MA in Iranian studies from SOAS University of London and has traveled extensively and lived in Iran. She recently completed a degree in international journalism at City University of London and currently collaborates with the Italian national newspaper La Stampa, mostly writing about Iranian affairs. Her work has appeared in Huffington Post Italia, ResetDoc and on Radio Rai3.

An Iranian man works at a drugstore at the Nikan hospital in Tehran on September 11, 2018. - Judges at the International Court of Justice in The Hague unanimously ruled Washington should remove barriers to "the free exportation to Iran of medicines and medical devices, food and agricultural commodities" as well as airplane parts. Iran produces 96 percent of the drugs it uses, according to the Syndicate of Iranian Pharmaceutical Industries, but imports more than half the raw materials to make them. (Photo by

US sanctions hit Iranian patients once again