Iranian authorities say they are investigating the poisoning of hundreds of schoolgirls. The incidents may have been attacks designed to prevent girls from seeking an education, officials said in recent days, after previously downplaying the issue.
protests that have rocked the Islamic RepublicAccording to the Parliament's news agency, Khane Mellat, an MP named Alireza Monadi said after an investigation, nitrogen gas had appeared during testing at the schools.
“What is clear is that both in Qom and Borujerd, it is a deliberate issue,” he said at a news conference, according to A special committee had been appointed to investigate the poisonings, and toxicology experts had been consulted, Panahi added.Lawmaker Ali Reza Monadi, who sits on the Parliament’s education committee, also said the poisonings were “intentional,” according to the state-run news agency IRNA.
The first cases emerged in late November in Qom, according to the news agency, with students at the Noor Yazdanshahr Conservatory falling ill, and then falling ill again a month later. Parents in the city have pulled their children from classes in recent weeks, the AP reported, citing Shargh, a reformist news website based in Tehran.
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