US Siege Bars Access to Vaccine

The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Abdolnasser Hemmati said efforts to transfer money for buying the coronavirus have been futile due to United States economic siege. 
In a note posted on his social media account Monday, Hemmati said Donald Trump’s America is lying when it says humanitarian trade, mainly import of food and medicine, is exempt from the hostile sanctions.
"Vaccine purchase must be done through covax and the official route of World Health Organization. All the routes for transferring money are blocked due to the vicious US  sanctions and obligation [of vaccine suppliers] to get permission from OFAC," he wrote. The Office of Foreign Assets Control is the financial intelligence and enforcement agency of the US Treasury Department.