New cases of gas poisoning affect hundreds of schoolgirls in Iran

This Sunday in Iran, there were new cases of gassing in several women’s training centers, in which hundreds of female students were once again poisoned across the Persian country.

Shortly after midnight, female students in a student dormitory in the northwestern Iranian city of Urmia were poisoned by an “unknown agent” and 29 out of 450 female students were hospitalized, Shargh daily reported.

In the city of Neushabur, in the northeast of the city. Iran50 institute students showed symptoms this morning poisoningof which 10 have been transferred to a medical center, Javad Hosseini, an official at the nearby Mashad University of Medical Sciences, said.

In the nearby city of Mashad, the spiritual capital Iranan unknown number of female students were also affected poisoning at another institute, Hosseini said, according to the Tasnim news agency.

“The students suffer from psychological problems and do not have any physical ailments,” said Hosseini, who indicated that a clinical investigation should be carried out to determine if they were poisoned.

In Kashan, located in the center of the country, poisoning at the girls’ school sparked protests from parents outside the local education department, Sharg said.

A collective of activists 1500tasvir raised cases about poisoning this Sunday to dozens of cities and shared videos online showing chaos in educational centers, students in ambulances and girls complaining of breathing problems.

wave of poisoning

surge poisoning with gas in women’s educational institutions began in November in the holy city of Shiism Qom and have become more frequent in recent days.

To date, more than 1,000 female students have been poisoned in dozens of schools and institutes and have suffered from headaches, palpitations, nausea, dizziness, and sometimes the inability to move their limbs after the smell of rotten orange and cleaning products.

Government Iran announced this Sunday that poisoning it is a “psychological contagion” operation aimed at reviving the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in September.

The Home Office said in a statement that they found “suspicious samples” at some women’s education centers that are being analyzed by “prestigious laboratories” to determine the cause of the samples. poisoning.

According to portfolio data, there were gas attacks in 52 schools, an unknown number of students were intoxicated, and 28 students were hospitalized – numbers far from those reported by Iranian media and activist groups.

Attacks and popular discontent

The attacks are fueling popular discontent, especially among parents, given the ineffectiveness of the authorities in stopping the attacks, which seem destined to paralyze the education of students.

IN Iran Women’s education has been unquestioned in the Islamic Republic’s 43 years, and some parents link the protest poisonings to a pronounced feminist streak in recent months.

Students of schools and institutes participated in these protests, took off their veils, shouted “woman, life, freedom” and cut off their sleeves in front of portraits of the supreme leader IranAli Khamenei and Ayatollah Ruhola Khomeini.

(As reported by EFE)

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