04.03.2023
Despite showing respiratory problems, none of the reported cases is serious. The government has not been able to explain what is happening.
Hundreds of girls were hospitalized this Saturday (03.04.2023) following allegedly being poisoned with gas in at least nine schools in Iran, amid a wave of poisonings in female educational centers in the Persian country. Citizens are shocked by these mysterious events, since the government has been unable to control the alleged attacks.
Dozens of girls were transferred this day to hospitals in the provinces of Hamedan (west), Zanján and western Azerbaijan (northwest), Fars (south) and Alborz (north), reported the Tasnim and Mehr agencies. Groups of activists raise the number of female educational centers affected only this Saturday to 40. The authorities assure that the state of health of the students, despite respiratory problems, dizziness or headaches, is not serious.
The activists shared on social networks videos of parents at the doors of schools and educational offices in various cities of the country shouting slogans once morest the Government for this wave of poisonings that has already affected more than a thousand students. These incidents began in the Shi’ite holy city of Qom in November and have multiplied in recent days.
“Fail the conspiracy”
The parents begin to lose patience and ask the authorities to act. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi ordered the Interior and Intelligence ministries on Friday to “destroy the enemy’s conspiracy that seeks to create fear and despair among the population.” He did not give any indication of the identity of that “enemy”.
The country has experienced great tension in recent months due to the protests unleashed by the death of the young woman Mahsa Amini, following being arrested for not wearing the Islamic veil correctly, a revolt with a marked feminist tone. The students of schools and institutes participated in these protests, took off their veils, shouted “woman, life, freedom” and cut their sleeves to portraits of the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, and Ayatollah Ruhola Khomeini.
State repression has managed to calm down the protests, in which almost 500 people have died and for which four protesters have been hanged.
DZC (EFE, AFP)
