The image is repeated in Tehran, the capital of Iraq: ambulances parked at the gates of girls’ schools and health professionals helping girls poisoned by toxic gases.

A total of 62 educational centers have suffered this type of attack in nine Iranian cities. There are already close to a thousand affected students. One of them recounts that they smelled gas in the classroom and “as more time passed, more girls were gagging and starting to run away of the class”.

According to the Iranian government, at the forefront of the attacks would be some Islamic fundamentalist group, in the style of the Taliban in Afghanistan. The gas poisonings started in november coinciding with the women’s protests against the regime sparked after the assassination of Mahsa Amini.

The chemical attacks They started in November of last year. Various voices suggest that the objective is the closure of schools for girls and continue with the tonic of blurring to the woman of society.