Iran bans U.S., U.K. covid-19 vaccines in feud with West
Yasna Haghdoost, Bloomberg
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A nurse handles a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine in Athens, Greece, on Dec. 29, 2020.Bloomberg photo by Konstantinos Tsakalidis.
Iran s Supreme Leader said he was banning the purchase of coronavirus vaccines made by U.S. and U.K. companies, limiting the country s options as it confronts the worst outbreak in the Middle East. The import of American and British vaccines to the country is banned, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech Friday. If their Pfizer manufacturer can produce a vaccine, then why do they want to give it to us? he said. They should use it themselves so they don t experience so many fatalities. Same with the U.K.