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Everything about Corona vaccine

 In the past few days, the hashtag #buy_vaccines has been trending amongst some Iranian users on social media. The debate is over whether the vaccines are even supposed to be provided for the Iranian citizens or not.
The Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, has recently pointed to the obstacles that will arise in the way of purchasing the Coronavirus vaccines for the Iranian people and blamed the United States administration, noting that: “Our people should know that whatever action we want to take, whether importing medicines, equipment, or vaccines, we should curse the president of the United States, due to the uncounted obstacles that he and his administration have been are making for us. They have seized every single possibility in this respect. They make the simplest financial interactions very difficult for the Iranian administration and it takes weeks or even months for us to transfer money to buy medicines for our people.”
However, after Rouhani’s speech, various Iranian officials have been remarking the other obstacles that the Iranian administration is facing in providing the Coronavirus vaccines for its citizens. Despite the problems related to the transfer of funds, the lack of facilities for distributing and refrigerating vaccines is also another challenge for the administration.
Meanwhile, some Iranian users started to share their concerns about the capability of the government to provide vaccines on social media, a more specific proposition has also been exposed: Since Iran did not join the FATF, it principally will no longer have a quota to buy the vaccines for the Iranian people.
The relevance between joining to the FATF and the ability to buy the vaccines are now being discussed more in public. The first official comment in this regard was expressed by Ali Motahari, a former Tehran MP, on his Twitter account on Monday: “Being on the FATF black-list, Iran has not been capable of transferring $50 million of its quota from the World Health Organization Corona virus vaccine to buy vaccines for 80 million Iranian citizens. Hence, the Expediency Council must be held accountable in this regard.” 
Consequently, Ali Rabiee, the Iranian Government Spokesman, implicitly confirmed Motahari’s statement in a virtual news conference. “In general, not joining the FATF and being blacklisted has shown its effects on financial transactions and financing issues. And unfortunately even when sanctions are not hampering, the FATF, itself, makes such excuses. However, the government has expressed its views in this regard, and we hope that with the opening of the way provided by the Supreme Leader for the possibility of reconsideration (of joining FATF) in the Expediency Council, we will be able to hold meetings in this regard and decide to provide whatever is in the country’s interest”, Rabiee said in response to an IRNA question concerning the problems of not joining the FATF to be able to buy vaccines and transfer money.

 

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