Tehran, Iran — President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday that Washington was demanding Iranian transactions for novel coronavirus vaccines pass through US banks, and expressed fear the money could be seized.
US President Donald Trump has imposed wave after wave of sanctions on the Islamic republic since 2018, when he unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal.
Iran has assets frozen in several countries, including in the US.
“We want to transfer money from a country where our money is” to buy the vaccine and “this country has accepted,” Rouhani said during a meeting of Iran’s coronavirus task force, without identifying the country in question.
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