Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei received on Friday the first dose of COV-Iran Barekat vaccine.

Iran has joined the limited number of countries which have developed home-made coronavirus vaccine, a spokesman said.

Iranian Ambassador and Permanent Representative at the UN Office in Geneva Esmayeel Baqayee Hamaneh lashed out at the anti-Iran report by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), calling it as politically-motivated.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Wednesday that the US seizure of the domains of IRIB websites is an example of US systematic effort to disrupt freedom of expression and make silent the independent voices in media space.

Iranian Parliament Speaker's Special Advisor for International Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian blasted the governments of the UK, Australia and New Zealand for their failure in providing security for a safe holding of the June 18 presidential election in their countries.

A group of Yemeni children released a statement to slam the UN's biased stance against them.

Former US President Donald Trump had last year reportedly mulled sending American nationals infected with the coronavirus to the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba in order to contain the COVID-19 outbreak on American, according to a new book.

Israeli authorities have planned to force 15,000 Palestinian families to tear down their own homes in Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem al-Quds, as the Tel Aviv regimes presses ahead with its land expropriation and home demolition policies in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Health Minister Namaki informed that the Iranian version of the Sputnik Covid-19 vaccine will be unveiled on Sat.

Iran has approved the emergency use of two domestically-produced COVID-19 vaccines as part of efforts to contain a recent surge in the disease.