In a joint statement, the Tehran Computer Guild Organization (Tehran-IRANSO) and the Tehran Electronic Commerce Association (ECA) expressed deep regret over the restrictive approaches and disruptive resistance of traditional, guild-oriented entities in the pharmaceutical sector toward online platforms. They warned that creating a false dichotomy between “healthcare” and “innovation” is merely a smokescreen to maintain a traditional monopoly and evade transparent tracking of drug distribution in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Association’s Public Relations department, the statement reads as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For years, official, registered digital platforms have been unfairly grouped with unauthorized medicine sales channels in various positions and public statements. This approach hinders the primary focus: developing smart monitoring and tracking mechanisms. While legal platforms digitally record and audit all transactions, pharmacy information, and delivery processes, the regulator’s persistent insistence on prohibition actually diminishes the role of transparent intermediaries and effectively obstructs greater clarity within the medicine distribution chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Superficial analogies such as “medicine is not pizza” represent an evasion of the realities of modern logistics. Smart platforms do not lower pharmaceutical standards; rather, for the first time, they enable comprehensive supply chain monitoring, documented delivery times, and recipient identity verification\u2014critical safety and health requirements that are noticeably absent in the traditional system, a systemic flaw that has fueled the leak of rare medicines into the Nasser Khosrow black market for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, for over two years, vague pretexts such as “lack of regulations” and “data privacy concerns” have been weaponized to restrict and suspend platform operations. This occurs despite the private sector\u2019s repeated readiness to adopt the most stringent technical and security requirements. Halting an entire industry due to potential data leaks reflects a primitive logic; by that same rationale, the nation’s entire banking network and e-government services would have to be shut down today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Crisis experiences have proven that online medicine delivery is not a luxury service, but a vital passive defense infrastructure and a biological necessity for the elderly, chronically ill, and less-abled individuals. Prolonging this state of gridlock could yield severe consequences for patient access to services and increases the accountability of the responsible institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We call upon all media outlets, regulatory bodies, and the public prosecutor to actively step into the arena and raise this pivotal question with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Why has the regulator, since 2023, shelved explicit government directives under the pretext of drafting new guidelines, leaving an entire industry stalled and depleted for over a year and a half? Even more bafflingly, following this prolonged obstruction, the FDA notified a directive on October 16 (24 Mehr) that was entirely authored and approved by itself. Yet now, after more than nine months, it continues to evade the very regulations it drafted. This pattern clearly demonstrates that the regulator’s strategy is not a concern for public health, but rather a “deliberate stalling tactic to exhaust the private sector”\u2014a clear instance of dereliction of duty that oversight authorities must thoroughly investigate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Tehran Computer Guild Organization and the Tehran Electronic Commerce Association declare that the era of manufacturing false dichotomies between “healthcare” and “technology” is over. Today’s challenge is a choice between two models of governance: modern, smart oversight or traditional distribution models that desperately require revision and alignment with new technologies. While reaffirming our full readiness to implement any technical and legal frameworks, we warn that insisting on blocking this path solely benefits the black market at the expense of public health. Instead of resisting the utilization of innovative capacities, the regulator must find the courage for responsible regulation and stop sacrificing the efficiency of the country’s healthcare system for guild interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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