Iran added this Sunday new cases of gas intoxicated students in various female educational centers. Hundreds of students suffer from symptoms of poisoning in at least five provinces.
Shortly after midnight, female students at a student dormitory in the northwestern Iranian city of Urmia were intoxicated “with an unknown agent” and 29 of 450 had been hospitalized, the daily reported. shargh.
According to report of EFEIn the northeastern city of Neyshabur, 50 high school students showed symptoms of poisoning. 10 were transferred to a medical center.
Hundreds of students hospitalized after being poisoned in various schools in Iran.https://t.co/OFiQw3PT3R
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In Mashad, Iran’s spiritual capital, an unknown number of female students were also poisoned at another institute, said an official at the nearby Mashad University of Medical Sciences, Javad Hosseini.
“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.
parent protests
In central Kashan, poisoning at a girls’ school sparked parental protests outside the local education department offices, Shargh said.
The collective of activists 1500tasvir raised the cases this Sunday to dozens of cities and shared videos on networks that showed chaos in educational centers, students in ambulances and girls complaining of difficulty breathing.
The wave of intoxication or poisoning with an alleged gas in women’s educational institutions began in November in the holy city of Qom Shiism and has multiplied in recent days.
More than 1,000 female students have been poisoned in dozens of schools and institutes.
The students suffer from headaches, palpitations, nausea, dizziness and sometimes the inability to move their extremities after smelling a rotten orange and cleaning products.
Government response
The Government of Iran affirmed that the poisonings are a “psychological contamination” operation that aims to revive the protests unleashed by the death in September of Mahsa Amini, the Spanish agency points out.
The Ministry of the Interior indicated in a statement, quoted by Efe, that they have found “suspicious samples” in some female educational centers, which are being analyzed in “prestigious laboratories.”
According to these data, there have been gas attacks in 52 schools, an unknown number of female students were intoxicated and 28 students have been hospitalized.
The figures are far from those provided by Iranian media and activist groups. The attacks are fueling popular discontent, especially among parents.
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 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights also called for a “transparent investigation” and asked that the findings be made public, according to the agency. AFP.
