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Tehran: Controversy continues in Iran over incidents of alleged poisoning of school going girls. 20 schoolgirls were once again admitted to the hospital on Tuesday after the incident of thousands of girl students falling ill after consuming poison. According to media reports, the girls are being treated after breathing problems in Tabriz, the capital of the northwestern province of East Azerbaijan. According to the news agency IRNA report, the girls are being treated after having trouble breathing in Tabriz, the capital of the northwestern province of East Azerbaijan.
Asghar Jafri, head of the city’s emergency service, told the news agency, “Emergency specialists were immediately sent to the scene after receiving news that several female students of a girls’ high school in Tabrej were in a critical condition. The condition of all the girls is normal. They are fine. There has been a wave of such cases since late November, with more than 5,000 students experiencing fainting, nausea, shortness of breath and other symptoms after reporting an “unpleasant” smell.
Anger is visible in the parents of the children
Such unexplained attacks in around 230 schools have created fear and anger among students and their parents. Classes resumed in schools on Monday after a two-week holiday for Nowruz. In early March, Iran said it had made more than 100 arrests over the poisoning, which it alleged the unidentified perpetrators may have had links to “hostile” groups.
Many schools in 31 states of Iran became target
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the perpetrators to be traced “without mercy”, calling it an “unforgivable crime”. The poisoning comes two months after protests erupted in Iran on September 16 following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for allegedly violating women’s dress rules. The latest official figures said the attacks targeted schools in 25 of Iran’s 31 provinces.
