There are vaccines in Iran, but Iranian vaccines.
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Aref Taherkenareh / AP / SIPA
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Friday banned the importation of coronavirus vaccines manufactured in the United States and the United Kingdom.
“We absolutely cannot trust them.
It is not impossible that they want to infect other nations, ”said a message from Ayatollah Khamenei on his Twitter account in English.
The Pfizer / BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccines which have been launched or are about to be launched in Europe and the United States are therefore banned in Iran.
"Given our experience with French blood contaminated with HIV, French vaccines are not trustworthy either," adds the message of the Iranian number one.
Iran is the country in the Near and Middle East most affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The case of contaminated blood as justification
The case of contaminated blood is a serious health scandal that affected France in the years 1980-1990.
Several hundred people in Iran were infected with the AIDS virus in the 1980s from French blood transfusion sets.
"If the Americans had been able to produce [a] [reliable] vaccine, this disaster linked to the coronavirus would not have occurred in their country, where around 4,000 people would have died in one day," the Iranian guide said on Friday. in a televised speech, referring to the number of deaths due to Covid-19 announced the day before by the Johns Hopkins Institute in the United States.
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