{"id":35876,"date":"2021-01-08T18:22:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T12:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=35876"},"modified":"2021-01-08T18:22:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T12:52:04","slug":"leader-khamenei-bans-imports-of-us-british-covid-19-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=35876","title":{"rendered":"Leader Khamenei bans imports of US, British COVID-19 vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/v\/s\/www.livemint.com\/news\/world\/iranian-leader-khamenei-bans-imports-of-us-british-covid-19-vaccines\/amp-11610101949261.html?amp_js_v=0.1&amp;usqp=mq331AQHKAFQArABIA%3D%3D\">REUTERS<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Sometimes they want to test vaccines on other nations &#8230; If the Americans were able to produce a vaccine, they would not have such a coronavirus fiasco in their own country,&#8217; the leader said<\/em><\/li><li><em>Iran launched human trials of its first domestic COVID-19 vaccine candidate late last month<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banned Iran&#8217;s government on Friday from importing COVID-19 vaccines from the United States and Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Imports of US and British vaccines into the country are forbidden. I have told this to officials and I&#8217;m saying it publicly now,&#8221; Khamenei said in a live televised speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I have no confidence in them. Sometimes they want to test vaccines on other nations \u2026 If the Americans were able to produce a vaccine, they would not have such a coronavirus fiasco in their own country.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran, the country that has been worst hit by the novel coronavirus in the Middle East, launched human trials of its first domestic COVID-19 vaccine candidate late last month, saying it could help Iran defeat the pandemic despite US sanctions that affect its ability to import vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Khamenei praised Iran&#8217;s efforts to develop domestic vaccines but said Iran could obtain vaccines &#8220;from other reliable places&#8221;. He gave no details but China and Russia are both allies of Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not optimistic about France either because of their history of infected blood,&#8221; Khamenei said, referring to the country&#8217;s contaminated blood scandal of the 1980s and 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REUTERS Sometimes they want to test vaccines on other nations &#8230; If the Americans were able to produce a vaccine, they would not have such a coronavirus fiasco in their own country,&#8217; the leader said Iran launched human trials of its first domestic COVID-19 vaccine candidate late last month Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}