Iran has arrested more than 100 people for their alleged responsibility in the poisoning of thousands of girls in female educational centers, attacks that the Persian country has attributed to “enemies” of the country.

“More than a hundred people were discovered and arrested for their responsibility in the recent incidents in schools,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement late last night.

The ministry claimed that some of the detainees “had hostile motives with the aim of creating the fear among the population and studentsand the closure of schools” to create skepticism towards the Islamic system.

Authorities said they are investigating the connection of the alleged gas attacks to the opposition group Mujahedden e Khalq, known as the MEK.

At the same time, the Home Office claimed that “some of these cases” were “mischief” caused by stink bombs by people who wanted to close classes influenced by the “psychological atmosphere”.

The wave of poisonings began at the end of November in the holy city of Qom, multiplied in the past week and no new cases have been registered in recent days.

So far, they have been poisoned around 5,000 students from 230 centers schools in 25 of Iran’s provinces, according to data provided by parliamentarian Mohammad-Hassan Asafari, a member of a commission investigating poisonings.

The students have suffered symptoms such as throat irritation, headaches, breathing difficulties, weakness, arrhythmias or the inability to move the extremities after inhaling an alleged gas.

The poisonings are fueling popular discontent, especially among parents, given the inefficiency of the authorities when it comes to stopping attacks that seem destined to paralyze the education of the students.

The supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, yesterday described these attacks as an “unforgivable crime” and affirmed that if it is proven that they are deliberate, the culprits must “receive the maximum punishment”, which in Iran is the death penalty.

Source: Eitb

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