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Iran's supreme leader gets jab of Iranian-made COVID-19 vaccine

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he turned down foreign-made vaccines because receiving Iran's own vaccine is a source of "national honor."
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Iran’s supreme leader received the country’s first domestically made coronavirus vaccine on Friday, describing the jab as a source of national pride.

“I did not want to use the non-Iranian vaccine,” state news outlets quoted the 82-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying. “So I said I would wait for the Iranian vaccine because we must respect this national honor.” 

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