Tehran, March 4. Dozens of girls were hospitalized on Saturday after being poisoned with gas in at least six schools in Iran, amid a wave of poisonings in educational centers for women in the Persian country.
Iranian authorities and official media confirmed poisonings this Saturday in six schools in the country, but groups of activists bring the number of women’s educational centers affected today to more than a dozen.
At least 27 female students from a school in the southern town of Kavar have been hospitalized after suffering nausea and dizziness, provincial education ministry spokesman Hamidreza Shabani told Tasnim news agency. .
The source said the young women are doing “good”.
In another case, 30 students from a school in the northwestern Iranian city of Urmia were admitted to medical centers this morning with symptoms of intoxication, Tasnim news agency reported. without citing official sources.
In the northern city of Zanjan, the number of those affected has risen to 29 young people, who have been taken to hospital and are in good condition, according to the president of the city’s University of Medical Sciences. , according to the Shargh newspaper.
Two schools in the towns of Hamedan and Kabudarahang, in the east of the country, also suffered poisonings which caused the hospitalization of an unknown number of young people, the spokesman of the University told ISNA. of medical sciences of Hamedan, Alireza Toghiri.
In addition, students from one of the schools in Karaj, neighboring Tehran, were also intoxicated, the province’s director general of education reported, according to Shargh.
The militant collective 1500tasvir has reported cases of gas poisoning in more than a dozen cities across the country, in Tehran, Shahriar, Pakdasht, Borujerd, Safadasht, Lahijan and Rasht, in addition to those already confirmed by the authorities .
The activists have shared on social networks videos of parents at the gates of schools and educational offices in different cities of the country shouting slogans against the Government for this wave of poisonings which has already affected more than a thousand students in women’s educational centers.
These incidents began in the Shia holy city of Qom in November and have increased in recent days.
The young women suffered from headaches, heart palpitations, nausea, dizziness and sometimes the inability to move their limbs after smelling a rotten orange and cleaning products.
Iran’s President, Ebrahim Raisí, claimed yesterday that the country’s “enemies” are carrying out these gas attacks to sow chaos and assured that he will put an end to this “conspiracy”.
The Home Office and Intelligence Ministry are investigating the poisonings, but have not yet reported any progress in clarifying what is going on.
popular discontent
These incidents fuel popular discontent, especially among parents, in the face of the authorities’ ineffectiveness in stopping the attacks which seem intended to paralyze the schooling of students.
The country has experienced great tension in recent months due to protests sparked by the death of young Mahsa Amini, after being arrested for not wearing the Islamic veil correctly, a revolt with a marked feminist tone.
Students from schools and institutes took part in these demonstrations, took off their veils, shouted “woman, life, freedom” and cut their sleeves at the portraits of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Ayatollah Ruholá Khomeini .
State repression succeeded in calming the demonstrations, during which nearly 500 people died and for which four demonstrators were hanged. ECE
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