ROUKHANI: sanctions interfere with vaccine purchases

Iranian President Hasan Roukhani said that his administration makes every effort to procure and import vaccine from coronavirus, but sanctions impede financial transactions, Tasnim News writes.

The administration is determined to satisfy the demand for the COVID-19 vaccine, despite all the problems that prevented the delivery and transactions of the currency, Roukhani said at a meeting of the National Headquarters to combat coronavirus on Saturday. “Negotiations in Vienna have achieved significant progress, but we are still under the sanctions,” the president added.

He said that despite all the problems, the Iranian administration provided the necessary reassembly, and translates the money as the batches of vaccine imported. Roukhani also assured that both the acquisition of foreign vaccines and the development of domestic fully supported by the presidential administration.