This Saturday alone, hundreds of girls had to be treated for gas inhalation at at least 40 women’s education centers. Amid panic among mothers and fathers, Iranian authorities are sending mixed messages, blaming the spate of poisonings on “enemies of the country”.
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More than 1,000 girls have been poisoned by gas in a few hundred women’s education centers in a dozen cities across the country since November, in incidents that began in the Shia holy city of Qom and have multiplied in recent weeks.
These are approximate figures provided by the Iranian media, as the authorities do not agree on the number of students or schools affected, even avoiding confirming that it is about intentional poisonings.
That same Saturday, hundreds of girls were hospitalized after being poisoned with gas in at least nine schools in Iran. Activist groups estimate the number of women’s education centers affected at 40 today, including Tehran, Shahriar, Pakdasht, Borujerd, Safadasht, Lahijan and Rasht.
Amid panic among parents, Iranian authorities are sending mixed messages, backtracking and resort to the usual accusations against the country’s “enemies”.. Health Minister Bahram Eynollahi has stated that “some kind of moderate poison” has been used in attacks that Deputy Education Minister Younes Panahi described as “intentional” to close girls’ schools. Panahi later backed off, saying he had been “misunderstood”.
The girls suffered headache, palpitations, nausea, dizziness and sometimes the inability to move the limbs after detecting a smell of rotten orange and cleaning products.
The country has experienced great tensions in recent months due to the protests of the death of young Mahsa Aminiafter being arrested for not wearing the Islamic veil properly, an uprising with a distinctly feminist tone.
The students of schools and institutes took part in these protests, they took off their veils, they cried “woman, life, liberty” and they cut the sleeves off portraits of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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Source: EITB
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