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Iran Rejects US, UK-Made COVID-19 Vaccines

Iran Rejects US, UK-Made COVID-19 Vaccines.

The Iranian supreme leader on Friday had banned the import of American and British-produced vaccines against COVID-19, saying they were “completely untrustworthy”.

 “Importing vaccines made in the US or the UK is prohibited,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a tweet, accompanied by the hashtag #CoronaVaccine.

 “It’s not unlikely they would want to contaminate other nations,” he added.

The Islamic republic has reported more than 1.2 million cases of the novel coronavirus, which have caused over 56,000 deaths.

Iran also has accused arch-enemy the US of hampering its access to vaccines through a tough sanctions regime.

While food and medicine are technically exempt from the measures, international banks tend to refuse transactions involving Iran.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said last month that Washington had demanded that Tehran pay for the drugs through US banks, adding that he feared the United States would seize the money.

Khamenei also tweeted that “given our experience with France’s HIV-tainted blood supplies, French vaccines aren’t trustworthy either.”

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