Iran is struggling with high corona death rates. But under no circumstances does the regime want to accept vaccines produced in the USA.
Tehran – The authorities in the Iran* have more than 800,000 doses of vaccine donated by Poland against the corona-Virus* returned because these are in the USA* were manufactured. This was reported by the AP news agency, citing Iranian state media, on Monday (February 21, 2022).
Speaking on Iranian television, Mohammad Hashemi, an official at the Ministry of Health, said that Poland had about a million doses of the drug Corona vaccine from the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company Astrazeneca* Donated to the Islamic Republic. “However, when the vaccines arrived in Iran, we found that 820,000 doses of the vaccine imported from Poland were from the United States,” he said.
Iran sends back corona vaccine doses – vaccines from the USA are not allowed
the Iran and the US have extremely complicated and strained relations*. While Washington has classified Iran as a “rogue state” since 1984 and repeatedly before the Development of Iranian nuclear weapons* warns that Tehran sees the US as its arch-enemy.
Hashemi said on TV: “After coordination with the Polish ambassador to Iran, it was decided that the vaccines would be returned.” Iran’s “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has rejected the import of American and British vaccines since the beginning of the corona pandemic.
“American and English vaccines must not be bought for Iran or used here,” Khamenei said in 2021, who as the political and religious leader has the final say in all matters of state. “If the US has reliable vaccines, why are so many people dying in the country?”
Iran: Poland wants to take back corona vaccine doses produced in the USA
There was probably a mishap in the coordination between the Polish and Iranian authorities. Iranian Health Minister Bahram Einollahi wrote in a letter to the head of the customs agency that despite Poland’s assurances, the corona vaccines would come from an “unapproved source”. According to Einollahi, Poland wants to withdraw the doses and “replace the vaccines with those from an approved source”.
In addition to the vaccine from Astrazeneca* The following vaccines are approved in Iran: Sinopharm from China, Sputnik V from Russia and Covaxin from the Indian manufacturer Bharat Biotech. Iran has also developed the corona vaccine “COVIran Barekat” – but there are hardly any verifiable scientific studies on the home-grown product.
More than 135,000 corona dead in Iran
With a total of more than 135,000 corona deaths, Iran has the highest death rate in the Middle East, according to official figures. According to the authorities, around seven million people have been infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus since 2020, but independent bodies suspect a high number of unreported cases.
Although around 65 percent of the population is said to have been vaccinated twice against Corona, the booster vaccination rate is very low according to official bodies. It is therefore only around 26 percent. As in many other countries, the highly contagious omicron mutant is now the dominant virus variant in Iran. (tvd) *fr.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
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