After the mysterious mass poisoning of schoolgirls in Iran, the government has now achieved its first successes: arrests have been made in five provinces based on “secret services findings”, Deputy Interior Minister Majid Mirahmadi said on Tuesday.
Mass poisonings at girls’ schools in Iran have been reported again and again over the past three months. Authorities suspect an attempt to exclude girls from education. Authorities have so far not provided information on the identities of those arrested, the circumstances of their arrest and their alleged role in the poisoning.
Those arrested face the death penalty
On Monday, Iran’s supreme spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, imposed a “severe punishment” for the poisoning. Iran’s judiciary chief Mohseni Ejei called for those arrested to be charged with “corruption on earth”, which would carry the death penalty.
New poisoning cases
Dozens of schoolgirls in the eastern city of Kuchan were hospitalized again on Monday after inhaling “unpleasant odours”, according to the reformist newspaper Etemad. By Sunday, more than 700 similar cases had been reported in the southwestern province of Khuzestan.
More than 5,000 schoolgirls in 25 of the country’s 31 provinces have been poisoned since late November, according to a parliamentary inquiry into the poisoning wave.
Source: Krone
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