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On Tuesday, Iranian authorities arrested several people on suspicion of being involved in the gassing of girls at women’s education centers amid citizen protests and media crackdowns.
Deputy Interior Minister Majid Mirahmadi announced that “some arrests” had been made in five provinces, but did not specify how many people were detained or if they belonged to any group or organization.
“The security authorities are continuing their investigation,” Mirahmadi said, according to the Mehr news agency.
These are the first arrests related to poisoning about 5,000 female students from 230 study centers in Iran’s 25 provinces, according to data released today by parliamentarian Mohammad-Hasan Asafari, a member of the commission investigating the poisonings.
surge poisoning It started three months ago, has become more frequent in recent days and resulted in the hospitalization of thousands of students, with no student death reported.
The students suffered from symptoms such as throat irritation, headaches, shortness of breath, weakness, arrhythmias, or inability to move their limbs after inhaling the suspected gas.
popular discontent
surge poisoning This fuels public dissatisfaction, especially among parents, with the ineffectiveness of the authorities when it comes to stopping the attacks, which seem destined to paralyze the education of students.
Today, parents, students and teachers protested in front of educational institutions due to the lack of safety for students in many cities of Ukraine. Iransuch as Tehran, Isfahan, Karaj, Mashhad, Rasht, Sanandaj or Shiraz.
According to activists, some of these protests were dispersed by the security forces using water cannons and gas cannons, while the official media did not report on these actions.
In addition, the judiciary charged several media outlets with Iran such as the Shargh or Hammihan newspapers for “spreading rumors” about poisonings.
“Those who spread rumors will face legal consequences,” Tehran’s prosecutor Ali Salehi said, ISNA reported.
The announcement of the arrests came a day after the Department of Health released a report attributing the vast majority of alleged cases to poisoning With gas.
“Less than 10% of the cases had actual symptoms and most of them are related to anxiety,” said Iranian Deputy Health Minister Saeed Karimi, who is part of the team investigating the incident. poisoning.
“Some students have been exposed to an irritant that is mostly inhaled,” the deputy minister said, without specifying what the product was.
Are the poisonings related to the protests?
supreme leader IranAli Khamenei yesterday called the attacks “an unforgivable crime” and reaffirmed that if it is proven that they were deliberate, those responsible should “suffer the maximum penalty”, which in Iran is the death penalty.
IN Iran women’s education has been unquestioned in the 43 years of the Islamic Republic, and some parents associate poisoning with protests with a strong feminist tinge in recent months that have subsided after heavy state repression.
School and college students participated in these protests, removing their veils, shouting “woman, life, freedom” and making contemptuous gestures at portraits of Khamenei and the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
(As reported by EFE)
Iranian citizens are protesting the hospitalization of schoolgirls due to a spate of alleged gas attacks. | Fountain: AFP
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