As Iran struggled with a new wave of COVID-19 infections, an official close to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on August 25 made a puzzling statement.
“The leader of the revolution has not yet banned a specific vaccine,” said Mehdi Fazaeli, a member of an office responsible for publishing Khamenei's works.
“From the beginning, they insisted on buying vaccines safely, and for some reason they did not consider buying from the United States, Britain and France safe,” he said.
But that is false.
In fact, Khamenei banned U.S. and U.K. vaccine imports in January, falsely claiming Western countries wanted to test their vaccines on Iranians.
LINK: www.polygraph.info/a/as-covid-19-spikes-iran-pirouettes-on-western-vaccine-ban/31439114.html
