Iran detains over 100 suspected of poisoning at girls’ schools

Iran has arrested more than 100 people for their alleged responsibility for poisoning thousands of girls at women’s educational centres, attacks that the Persian country has attributed to the country’s “enemies”.

“More than a hundred people have been identified and arrested for their involvement in recent school incidents,” the interior ministry said in a statement.

The ministry said some of the detainees “had hostile motives to instill fear among the population and students, and to close schools” to create skepticism towards the Islamic system.

Authorities Iran They indicated that they were investigating the connection of the alleged gas attacks to the opposition group Mujahedden e Khalq, known as the MEK.

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At the same time, the Ministry of the Interior Iran He stated that “some of these cases” were “pranks” provoked with stink bombs by people who wanted to close the classrooms under the influence of the “psychological atmosphere”.

surge poisoning It began at the end of November in the holy city of Qom, and has multiplied over the past week, with no new cases reported in the city in recent days. Iran.

To date, about 5,000 female students from 230 schools in 25 provinces of Iran have been poisoned, according to figures provided by lawmaker Mohammad-Hasan Asafari, a member of the commission investigating the poisonings.

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.

poisoning They stir up popular discontent, especially among parents, given the ineffectiveness of the authorities when it comes to stopping the attacks, which seem destined to paralyze the education of students.

Ministry of Health and Ministry of the Interior Iran came to the conclusion that in most cases poisoning this was due to “anxiety” and blaming “an irritating substance” for a small part of the “real” symptoms exhibited by “some” female students.

“Less than 10% of the cases had real symptoms, and most of them are related to anxiety,” said Iranian Deputy Health Minister Saeed Karimi, who is part of the poisonings investigation team.

“Unforgivable Crime”

supreme leader IranAli Khamenei yesterday described the attacks as an “unforgivable crime” and said that if it can be proven that they were deliberate, the perpetrators should “suffer the maximum punishment”, which in Iran this is the death penalty.

The president IranEbrahim Raisi accused poisoning “enemies” of the country is a term often used to refer to the United States and Israel.

IN Iran Women’s education has been unquestioned in the Islamic Republic’s 43 years, and some parents link the poisonings to the protests to the pronounced feminist sentiment in recent months, which has 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)

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