Iran has launched the second production line of the COVIran Barekat vaccine, developed by experts at the Headquarters for Executing the Order of Imam Khomeini.

Iran’s Barekat vaccine hits a production milestone of 5 million nearly a month after its rollout.

Despite sanctions, the COV-Iran Barekat vaccine, a domestically produced vaccine by Iran, is undergoing volunteer assisted trials. Several groups are involved in studying and developing MRNA vaccines as well as recombinant vaccines.

The US economic sanctions against Iran during the pandemic helped Iranians to grow self-reliant and creative, one analyst says.

In its first edition, Spotlight looks at Iran’s joining of elite few countries in making its own Covid-19 vaccine.

Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad says the US push to renew a cross-border aid operation into Idlib is aimed at supplying terrorist groups with arms.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei receives his first dose of a homegrown coronavirus vaccine.