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Iran is still waiting for Russia to fulfill its obligation supply millions of doses of Sputnik V vaccine as soon as possible. According to the contract signed by the countries last January, 62 million doses should be delivered to the Islamic Republic. 1 million 20 thousand doses have been received by Tehran so far.
On August 10th, the Iranian Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali commented on the issue, expressing his hope that the remaining part of the vaccines should be delivered to Iran as soon as possible. According to his statements, the Iranian officials are still no aware when Iran expects to receive a precious delivery.
“This question should be asked to our Russian colleagues, because what we could do was to sign a contract and ask them to deliver it to our country, and this was done, the contract was concluded by our government. But so far, a small part of the contract has been implemented, and the remaining part has not been implemented, ” the ambassador complained.
Jalali highlighted that they hope for Moscow to fix all production and delivery obstacles in faces as soon as possible. According to him, Iran understands that Russia must first strengthen its internal production, so Tehran does not see “evil intentions in this matter.”
In its comments to the Russian media, the Russian Direct Investment Fund recalled that it had previously reported temporary delays in the delivery of the second component of Sputnik V due to a significant increase in the production capacity. All the delays should be reportedly fixed out in August.
It is not clear how Moscow will supply 60 million dozes more Iran in two weeks. Even without taking into account other countries waiting for Russian Sputnik V.
Meanwhile, Iranian authorities face the vaccination campaign at risk to fail. According to the report by the Associated Press, by August 11, only three million people out of 80 million were vaccinated, only four percent of the country’s population.
Delays in Russian supplies have a very bad impact on public opinion in Iran.
The vaccine that should become a good tool for the public diplomacy now has a controversial effect. Moreover, the Iranians remember the refusal of Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of Iran, to accept supplies of Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines from the United Kingdom and the United States.
According to Johns Hopkins University, since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 4 million people have been contaminated in Iran, 94 thousand people have died.
At the moment, the Iranian authorities are vaccinating people with four vaccines: the Russian Sputnik V, the Chinese Sinovac, donated by Japan and the UN AstraZeneca, as well as the Iranian COVIran Barakat. Last month, the Russian Direct Investment Fund reported that in addition to the supply of the Russian vaccine, test production of Sputnik V was launched in Iran. Actoverc, one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in Iran, became a partner.
these sick corrupt russians are worthless and there is no merit in having relations with them just look at the all around behavior of these america 2.0 clowns
how can we trust you russians to even trade anything after you mess up trade on medicines how can we be sure that you dont send us poisons instead the issue already happened several times in the past you dont know how badly you have fouled yourself in the eyes of iranians and that annoys me alot how ignorant you are
this next government calls itself the government of merit and the government for the will of the people and they cant do as rouhani and others did before and now here you have already messed up the mazandaran sea issue because nobody will allow anything on that issue be ratified which means russians will soon be kicked out of iranian installations and part of the sea completely because you cant really work with us can you
for us iranians this is the s300 issue all over again and if russia couldnt sell why did it sign the contract and this again shows why liberalism like that of rouhani is a failure iran should have invested all what it invested in foreign vaccines in domestic ones as it should never again buy anything important from russia the usa or the eu and britain
these are peoples lives with which russia did just mess and iranians dont forget such a thing so why did you sign the contract if you could not end it how comes europeans can never keep to the contracts they signed you russians are really no different pacta sunt servanda you keep to your word if you are worth something and dont give promises like hot air as you do
And yet some Russian trolls (i.e. Saker) have invented the term “non-agreement capable” to describe US and the West as being absolutely unreliable when it comes to living up to their contractual obligations.
It has been more than a decade since Russia refused to honour an agreement with Iran and turned down the delivery of already paid S300 system. Therefore, Iran had plenty of time to figure out and to get used to the way Russians do “business”. I would also assume that the Iranians of today are not much better, and that is the main reason these two divergent countries consider themselves to be some kind of allies. In other words they have something in common.
Obviously, you’re a one trick Russian apologist moron.
Even Russian trolls are inferior.
yet they rank far ahead of the jew trolls, who have mostly fled this forum due to constant pounding and abuse.
imagine this was a test which was failed miserably its such an annoyance its called pacta sunt servanda for a reason you fools what can iran do with the likes of you who cant keep their word
nothing can be done with the russians they simply dont have the dignity to stand by their words do you think that more important things can be trusted to russia certainly not
Its not the Russians per say, its Putin the Chabad poodle.
centuries of mistreatment and mass murdering aggression you had a chance to stand less bad in the eyes of iranians but you failed and now iranians are back to the view that you are the mass murdering russians as usual no different to tsars no different to soviets
like always irans only partner worth to call them that is china and maybe indian subcontinent if it can come down of its tree
Iranians should be happy to dodge gene altering “vaccines”. Even if the russky “vaccine” is not loaded with toxic crap like the pindo, or limey ones, it still is based on the flawed assumption that forcing human cells to get genetically altered, as such to produce the (computer generated nucleotide sequence) “spike” protein, will somehow “learn” the immune system to attack the (computer generated nucleotide sequence of never purified) “virus”.
Putin shows his true ( Chabad ) colors once again. How many other countries have already received Sputnik from Russia ? However, Iran , supposedly Russia’s ally, gets delays ? I hope everyone remembers the delays in building Iran’s reactor, or the delays in delivering the s-300 systems, and now we have this. See a pattern yet ?
Does anyone still think Russia will jump in and fight alongside Iran if Iran gets attacked by the Zios ? Keep fooling yourselves if you do.
I wonder why we quote AP and Johns Hopkins for the numbers concerning Iran while there are Iranian sources that AP and JH use in the first place and add their own spin to it?
So far (Aug. 11th) the number of vaccinated people (receiving at least 1 shot) are about 13 millions, of which about 3.4 millions are fully vaccinated (first and 2nd shots).
Iran’s health ministry publishes the statistics each day at noon, local time which is accessible immediately by the ministry’s website, the domestic news networks and also https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
As far as I know, there are 9 vaccines in various stages of development to be manufactured in Iran, the first one to release was CovIran Barekat which is finishing their second production line (total production 4mn a month) and preparing the 3rd line (total production will be around 10mn a month). Other vaccines are:
– The Pasteur Institute vaccine (PasteuCoVac), a joint-venture with Cuba’s Finlay, currently in 2nd trial phase.
– Razi Institute’s RaziCovPars, finished 2nd phase and entering the 3rd
– Fakhra vaccine (developed under supervision of the late martyr Fakhrizadeh in the MoD), Finished the 1st phase
– Noora vaccine by Medical University of Baqiyatallah, finished pre-trials, entering the 1st phase of trials
– Sinagene’s Spicogene (jointly developed with Australia’s Vaxine), finished the 2nd phase
– 2 other vaccines, one by Osveh pharmaceuticals (OsVid) and another -an mRNA type- by Darman Gostar Ranab, both finished animal tests
– And under license production of Sputnik-V of Russia’s Gamaleya.
A moth ago I read a report that said the joint production line for Sputnik V is finished and they are ready to receive the material from the Russian side. It was explained that because of enormous demand for the vaccine, Russians said early that they are unable to deliver it from Russia and offered to produce the bulk (~50mn) locally but at least 10mn will be delivered from Russia. There was no further update about it so far.
The biggest number of imported vaccines belong to China’s Sinopharm (~15mn of the total 21mn). There was a lot of obstacles in the way of importing vaccines, until Coviran was released and magically 2 days later all problems solved overnight and we managed to import a lot, about 14 millions after that (7millions imported since the beginning, 14mn imported in the last Iranian month). The vaccination speed increased (currently about 600k a day) and since the new president actually gives a $#it, now the health ministry will use the help of the armed forces and Basij to increase it further and contain the epidemy.
I don’t know what caused the delay for production of Sputnik. I know about a deliberate saboutage in the production of some basic medical supplies (in addition to other things, like the saboutage in the production chain of poultry, cement, flour, electricity, etc.) like injection serum (the simple salt-sugar solution) which we used to produce in ample quantities and export a lot, to a point where it suddenly disappeared last week. Fortunately IRGC managed to control the situation quickly but at least a week is needed to resupply all corners of the country. There is also a sudden sever shortage of the common medicine used to treat Covid patients in the hospitals but amazingly you can find it in black market (a very visible and freely operating black market that everybody knows in a famous street of Tehran for instance) for 10 times the price, while these drugs are either produced domestically or imported in quantities both with huge government subsidiary, so there is a lot of work for the intelligence ministry.
Based on this information, at the moment I cannot put all the blame on Russia and rule out attempts by Rouhani’s cronies to derail or delay Sputnik-V’s production (as they did the same with CovIran Barekat. While in the countries which produce vaccine, the governments put large orders and payed in advance for it and actively sought to find markets for these companies even by threats and strong arming other countries, ours refused to even order the vaccine let alone paying for it and threw every monkey wrench in their disposal at it. Luckily Barekat Foundation is a subsidiary of a huge and wealthy organization, “Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order” and they developed the vaccine on their own and even so far didn’t receive a dime for a few millions they delivered to the health ministry) but based on what we hear from Russia, it seems the Russian side is not entirely blame-free. More information is needed in this regard.
Hopefully in the following weeks this situation will change dramatically. I for one am itching for blood of these leeches who squeezed and pressured the most vulnerable part of the population to further their own plans and schemes to remain in power. Our country has the means and potential to become a world power in a decade or two. But we need to pay more attention to the enemies within. That’s the real danger for us, not an illegal bloodthirsty regime in a tiny bit of stolen property which can’t even sustain itself.
Even Iranians don’t want Russian junk lol
Not too much should be surmised from a pharmaceutical supply chain issue which is a global problem. The key strategic cooperation between Russia and Iran are very deep and sound.
The Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev made a phone call with his Iranian counterpart, Admiral Ali Shamkhani, discussing Afghanistan, Syria, and Persian Gulf on Wednesday afternoon, as well as the news that Iran will soon join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
Patrushev and Shamkhani discussed continuous Russian-Iranian cooperation in the field of military strategic issues and national security.