An Iranian-American advocacy group has urged President Joe Biden to unfreeze Iran's funds in the US to pay for Covid vaccines amid an alarming surge in the pandemic.
The British Embassy in Tehran has said that Iran has purcgases 4.2 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine despite a ban on US and UK vaccines by its supreme leader.
Many Iranians, including doctors and scientists have rejected the decision to import the Russian Covid-19 vaccine, while the government rejects Western approved vaccines.
Iran will buy the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India’s Serum Institute if they are approved by China and India, after the Supreme Leader banned Western Covid-19 vaccines.
Iran says it is in talks with China, Russia and India over importing Covid-10 vaccines after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei banned American and British vaccines.
A document exculsively obtained by IITV shows Iran's government was ready to import Western COVID vaccines until Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei banned them.
The Chairman of the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences has written to the UN's ntonio Guterres defending Supreme Leader Ali Khameni's ban on US and UK vaccines.