Iran suffered this Sunday new cases of gas poisoning in several female educational centers in which hundreds of students were once again poisoned throughout the Persian country.

Shortly after midnight, female students from a student dormitory in the northwestern Iranian city of Urmia were poisoned “with an unknown agent” and 29 of the 450 female students were hospitalized, the Shargh daily reported.

In the northeastern city of Neyshabur, 50 high school students showed symptoms of poisoning this morning, 10 of whom were taken to a medical center, Javad Hosseini, an official from the nearby Mashad University of Medical Sciences, said. . In the neighboring city of Mashad, Iran’s spiritual capital, an unknown number of female students were also poisoned at another high school, Hosseini said, according to the Tasnim news agency.

“The students suffer psychological problems and have no physical ailments“, said Hosseini, who indicated that a clinical investigation is necessary to determine if they were poisoned. In Kashan, located in the center of the country, the poisoning in a girls’ school provoked protests by parents in front of the offices of the local education department, Shargh pointed out.

The collective of activists 1500tasvir raised the cases of poisoning this Sunday to dozens of cities and shared videos on networks that showed chaos in educational centers, students in ambulances and girls complaining of breathing difficulties.

The wave of alleged gas poisonings at women’s educational institutions began in November in the Shi’ite holy city of Qom and has multiplied in recent days.

Until now more than 1,000 students have been intoxicated in dozens of schools and institutes and have suffered headaches, palpitations, nausea, dizziness and sometimes the inability to move limbs after perceiving a smell of rotten orange and cleaning products.

The Government of Iran affirmed this Sunday that the poisonings They are a “psychological contamination” operation. which aims to revive the protests unleashed by the death in September Mahsa Amini.

The Ministry of the Interior indicated in a statement that they have found “suspicious samples” in some female educational centers, which are being analyzed in “prestigious laboratories” to identify the cause of the poisoning.

According to data from the portfolio, there have been gas attacks in 52 collegesan unknown number of female students were poisoned and 28 students have been hospitalized, figures that are far from those provided by the Iranian media and activist groups.

The attacks are fueling popular discontent, especially among parents, given the ineffectiveness of the authorities in stopping attacks that seem destined to paralyze the education of the students.

In Iran, female education has not been questioned in the 43 years of existence of the Islamic Republic and some parents link the poisonings with the protests with a marked feminist tone in recent months.

The students of schools and institutes participated in these protests, they removed 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.