IRAnIAnS FeAR MORe MISeRy FROM cURBS

> The United States will reapply curbs to the country’s vital petroleum and banking sectors on Monday.

> Businesses are already struggling to buy raw materials.

> Sick and elderly are unable to afford life-saving medicines.

> Iran’s clerical rulers have played down the US move.

> They say Tehran will not succumb to pressure to halt its missile programmes or to change its regional policy.

> For ordinary Iranians, the daily struggle to make ends meet has been getting harder for months. > Foreign businesses of all types, ranging from oil companies, trading houses to shipping, have stopped doing business with Iran.