Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the United States blocked Iran�s access to ten million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by pressuring the companies involved in the transferring of the vaccines to Iran.

�We have done what we should have done. We bought vaccines from India and we paid for it, but then they said �our Judiciary has gotten in the way and we cannot give you the vaccines,�� Rouhani said during a video conference call on Thursday during a ceremony to inaugurate five national knowledge-based and innovative projects.

Pointing to the unprecedented US sanctions against the Islamic Republic, Rouhani said Tehran�s general impression was that no country would target another country�s access to basic needs such as food and medicine with sanctions, but the United States, under former president Donald Trump, proved Iran wrong.
�Trump dwarfed all the executioners of history as he started a war against the Iranian nation which had no boundaries, like a war that does not shy away from [using] chemical, microbial and nuclear weapons or [targeting] residential and non-residential areas,� he added.
The Iranian president further lamented that the �rebellious� and �lawless� US government has not eased its sanctions on Iran since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, hampering Iran�s efforts to buy necessary medicines and vaccines.