Ayatollah Ali Khamenei s ban concerns vaccines made Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna. (File)
Tehran:
Twitter has removed a tweet by Iran s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggesting coronavirus vaccines made in the United States and Britain are untrustworthy , saying the post violated its rules. Importing vaccines made in the US or the UK is prohibited. They re completely untrustworthy. It s not unlikely they would want to contaminate other nations, said a tweet posted Friday on Khamenei s English-language Twitter account. Given our experience with France s HIV-tainted blood supplies, French vaccines aren t trustworthy either, the Iranian leader added in the tweet with the hashtag #CoronaVaccine.
Twitter later removed the tweet and replaced it with a message that said it was no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules .
Twitter removes Khamenei vaccine tweet for violating rules
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Twitter removes Khamenei vaccine tweet for violating rules
TEHRAN (AFP) - Twitter has removed a tweet by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggesting coronavirus vaccines made in the United States and Britain are untrustworthy , saying the post violated its rules. Importing vaccines made in the US or the UK is prohibited. They’re completely untrustworthy. It’s not unlikely they would want to contaminate other nations, said a tweet posted Friday on Khamenei’s English-language Twitter account. Given our experience with France’s HIV-tainted blood supplies, French vaccines aren’t trustworthy either, the Iranian leader added in the tweet with the hashtag #CoronaVaccine.
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DUBAI (Reuters) -
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. (Reuters/Khalid al-Mousily/File Photo)
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday accused President Donald Trump of attempting to fabricate a pretext to attack Iran, and said Tehran would defend itself forcefully.
Separately, a military adviser to Iran‘s supreme leader warned Trump “not to turn the New Year into mourning for Americans.”
Zarif said in a tweet: “Instead of fighting covid in US, Donald Trump & cohorts waste billions to fly B52s & send armadas to OUR region. Intelligence from Iraq indicate plot to FABRICATE pretext for war.”