Everything we need to know about the corona vaccine story in Iran!
Yashar Soltani: Corona has taken many lives in the world and especially in Iran. The vaccine import started very slowly, and the announcement of the readiness of some domestic companies to produce the vaccine made the vaccination process even slower.
Also, with the self-embargo of Western countries’ vaccines and the abuse and lack of cooperation by the allies of the Eastern bloc (China and Russia) under the pretext of embargoing Iran, the lives of thousands of Iranian citizens were easily lost.
Some information of this report is published for the first time.
After facing the corona virus, the Iranian government operated in 3 phases.
1- Importing medicine to treat Corona
Remdesivir – amounting to 5 thousand 872 billion Tomans has been imported.
Faipiravir – amounting to 766 billion Tomans has been imported.
2- Proceeding to produce a vaccine
Regarding domestic vaccine production, 19 vaccine projects are currently being implemented, of which 7 companies are actually relevant, and with the permission of the #National_Security_Council, some of them have been given government currency (4200).
1) Barkat: received an emergency permit and has produced 8 million doses so far and received 40 million dollars in 4200 currency with the permission of the National Security Council.
2) Institut Pasteur: joint product with Cuba – with the authorization of the National Security Council received 40 million dollars in currency 4200 but has not delivered anything to the government.
3) Razi Institute: With the permission of the National Security Council, it received 40 million dollars in foreign currency, 4200, but it has not delivered anything to the government.
4) Milad Daru Noor Company (Fakhra): received 10 million dollars in preferential currency, but did not deliver anything to the government.
5) Actover company: under the Russian license, it has not delivered anything to the government.
6) Cinagen Company: started clinical studies – did not receive currency and did not deliver anything to the government.
7) Amitis Gene has not received equivalent currency and has not delivered anything to the government.
3- Vaccine import
So far, Iran has allocated 456 million dollars for the import of vaccines.
In relation to the issue of imports, the embargo and non-cooperation of many countries, even our allies and neighbors, is a strange issue in this story.
1) Currency transfer for supplier companies is either not done or is done with high cost and special methods.
2) SWIFT does not actually support the banking system.
3) The Chinese government and Chinese vaccine companies have no desire to work with Iran, and the required vaccines are supplied through some strange government intermediaries and with the help of the Chinese Red Cross and the Iranian Red Crescent, not the manufacturers (Sinopharm, Sinovac and Cansino)!
This means that the vaccine manufacturers themselves have no desire to cooperate with the Iranian government.
4) Iran’s neighbors and countries like Iraq, Turkey, China and Korea did not even allow us to use our blocked currencies to import vaccines. They used the embargo as an excuse.
5) Russia signed a contract for 62 million doses of the Sputnik vaccine until 2/8/1400, but only 1.2 million doses of the vaccine have been delivered so far.
Finally, it should be concluded that in relation to the issue of import; Internal self-sanctions, the non-cooperation of many countries, even allies and neighbors, and the issue of American sanctions are the tangled tangle of this story, and what is lost is the daily lives of hundreds of Iranians.
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