Raeisi:

Iran ready to send Covid-19 vaccines to Yemen

TEHRAN (Defapress) - Iranian president has told the head of the Yemeni political council that Tehran is ready to dispatch Covid-19 vaccines to help the impoverished country in the fight against the pandemic.

News ID: 84281

Date: 26 June 2022 - 01:56

President Ebrahim Raeisi held a phone call with the Chairman of the Supreme Political Council on Saturday during which Raeisi declared the preparedness of Iranian government to send Covid-19 vaccines to help the impoverished country in the fight against the pandemic.

The president said that Iran supports a ceasefire that will lead to full peace and a real lifting of the blockade against the Yemeni nation.

"We are ready to send humanitarian aid and coronavirus vaccines to the Yemeni people," Raeisi told Mahdi Al-Mashat.

The Yemeni official, for his part, praised the Islamic Republic of Iran for becoming the voice of the Yemeni people on the international stage and called for an increasing expansion of relations and cooperation between Sana'a and Tehran.