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The Iran Hemophilia Society announced Wednesday that it will file a lawsuit against a French company to seek justice for Iranian hemophilia patients who contracted AIDS through its contaminated blood products. The society’s chief executive officer, Nazanin Farzadifar, speaking to Anadolu at a meeting in the capital Tehran to discuss the process for filing the lawsuit, said that for the first time, a lawsuit would be filed to address the rights of the patients, who were infected after receiving contaminated plasma sent from France 40 years ago. Farzadifar said the French company shipped the plasma to Iran between 1982-1984. She said that during the Iran-Iraq war, the country had to import drugs and there were no adequate conditions for testing blood products. - First victim 7-year-old child Noting that the first victim of the contaminated plasma was a 7-year-old, Farzadifar said the child contracted AIDS and died two years later. She said the child and their family, who were not sufficiently informed about AIDS, were ostracized by society and experienced great trauma. Saying that the French state and the company sending the infected plasma owe an apology to the affected families, she emphasized the need for both financial and moral compensation. Farzadifar mentioned that in a similar case caused by the company, 198 Iraqi patients were paid a total of $600 million in compensation, and a few years ago, the company sent a letter to Iran expressing its readiness to pay compensation. (Footage by Eisa Mohammadi /Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)