Iran buys Oxford vaccine despite leader's ban on UK, US made shots

Iran on Wednesday said it has purchased 4.2 million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford University coronavirus vaccine. Iran's Health Minister Saeed Namaki said that the vaccine was secured through a global vaccine program backed by WHO. In January, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had banned the import of vaccines from the US and UK, saying they were "completely untrustworthy".