2021 in Iran
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Events in the year 2021 in Iran.
Incumbents
Events
- January 8
- Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei announced that Iran would ban the import of COVID-19 vaccines from France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and would instead obtain a vaccine from other countries.[1]
Deaths
- 1 January – Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, 85, cleric and politician (b. 1935)
- 9 January - Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi, 72, weightlifter (b. 1948)
- 12 January - Mahmoud Kianoush, 86, poet (b. 1934)
- 27 January - Mehrdad Minavand, 45, footballer (b. 1975)
- 3 February - Ali Ansarian, 43, footballer (b. 1977)
References
- Hafezi, Parisa (January 8, 2021). "Iran leader bans import of US, UK COVID-19 vaccines, demands sanctions end". Reuters.
“Imports of U.S. and British vaccines into the country are forbidden ... They’re completely untrustworthy. It’s not unlikely they would want to contaminate other nations,” said Khamenei, the country’s highest authority. “Given our experience with France’s HIV-tainted blood supplies, French vaccines aren’t trustworthy either,” Khamenei said, referring to the country’s contaminated blood scandal of the 1980s and 1990s.
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