Thousands of girls have been gas poisoned in schools in Iran since last November
This Saturday alone, hundreds of girls have had to be treated after inhaling gas in at least 40 women’s educational centers. In the midst of panic among mothers and fathers, the Iranian authorities send mixed messages and blame the wave of poisonings on “enemies of the country”.
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Girls in a school in Tehran (Iran). Photo: EFE
Euskaraz irakurri: Milaka neskato gasarekin pozoitu dituzte Irango ikastetxeetan azaroaz geroztik
More than 1,000 girls have been gas poisoned in a few hundred women’s educational centers in a dozen cities in the country since November, in incidents that began in the Shi’ite holy city of Qom and have multiplied in recent weeks.
These are approximate figures provided by Iranian media since the authorities do not agree on the number of students or schools affected, and even avoid confirming that it is about deliberate poisonings.
This same Saturday, hundreds of girls were hospitalized after being poisoned with gas in at least nine schools in Iran. Activist groups put the number of female educational centers affected today at 40, including Tehran, Shahriar, Pakdasht, Borujerd, Safadasht, Lahijan and Rasht.
Amid panic among parents, Iranian authorities send mixed messages, backtrack and resort to the usual accusations against “enemies” of the country. The Minister of Health, Bahram Eynollahi, has affirmed that “some type of moderate poison” has been used in attacks that the Deputy Minister of Education, Younes Panahi, described as “intentional” to close girls’ schools. Panahi later backed down, saying he had been “misunderstood.”
The girls have suffered headaches, heart palpitations, nausea, dizziness and sometimes the inability to move the extremities after perceiving a smell of rotten orange and cleaning products.
The country has experienced great tension in recent months due to the protests unleashed by the death of young Mahsa Aminiafter being arrested for not wearing the Islamic veil correctly, a revolt with a marked feminist tone.
The students of schools and institutes participated in these protests, they took off their veils, they shouted “woman, life, freedom” and they gave sleeve cuts to portraits of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Source: Eitb
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