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IranMysterious Incidents – Hundreds of poison attacks at girls’ schools
After numerous cases of poisoning at girls’ schools in Iran, President Ebrahim Raisi intervened on Wednesday.
Angry parents gathered outside the governor’s office in Qom following the poisoning of schoolgirls.
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Are the poison attacks acts of revenge by the mullahs?
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That’s what it’s regarding
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Girls are repeatedly poisoned in Iranian schools.
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The exact course of the poison attacks and who is responsible have not yet been clarified.
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Already 1200 schoolgirls treated for shortness of breath.
After numerous cases of poisoning at girls’ schools in Iran, President Ebrahim Raisi intervened on Wednesday. He announced on his website that Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi would from now on continuously provide information regarding the status of the investigation into the mysterious incidents. He entrusted Vahidi with it “to allay the fears of the relatives,” it said.
On Wednesday, Iranian media reported new poisoning attacks at a total of ten girls’ schools, seven in the northwestern city of Ardabil and three in the capital Tehran. More than 100 students were hospitalized.
Author of the poison attacks so far unknown
Poisonings at girls’ schools in Iran have been reported once more and once more for regarding three months, which the authorities suspect is an attempt to exclude girls from schooling. The exact course of the poison attacks and who is responsible have not yet been clarified.
According to an Iranian MP on Wednesday, almost 1,200 schoolgirls with shortness of breath had to be treated by a doctor, 800 of them alone from poisoning in the city of Qom, south of Tehran. The substances used once morest the girls in Qom apparently contained traces of nitrogen.
(dpa/fos)
