There are reports of hundreds of schoolgirls being poisoned in Iran

Hundreds of anti-government protesters in Iran have been killed, injured, and taken to mental health institutions: the case of Mahsa Amini’s death

The Iranian official said on Tuesday that school students involved in street protests are being taken to mental health institutions.

“It is possible these students have become ‘anti-social characters’ and we want to reform them,” he told the Shargh newspaper, adding that the students “can return to class after they’ve been reformed.”

Nearly a month ago, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died after being taken to a “reeducation center” by state “morality police” for not abiding by the state’s conservative dress code. Amini’s death has sparked weeks of anti-government protests that have spread across the country.

In some cases the video shows Iranian girls chanting, “death to the dictator” as they take off their headscarves; in another instance, CNN watched a group of girls chanting, “woman, life, freedom” while protesting near their school.

Police and Basij members fired tear gas at the gathering of Iranian lawyers in Tehran, while uniformed and plainclothes police were seen firing weapons in the air in West Tehran, dispersing people from the scene. In one of the busiest shopping streets in the city, riot police were seen gathering. Protesters were shouting “Mullahs, get lost.”

IranWire posted on social media videos showing demonstrations in Tehran and other Iranian cities.

The UN children’s agency is extremely concerned by reports of children and adolescents being killed, injured, and held in Iran.

Dozens of incidents at schools in Afghanistan were similar to the current ones in Iran. pesticides were suspected in a few of the incidents, but most of the illnesses remain unexplained.

CNN has reached out to one of the schools named by state media as having had an incident of poisoning, Noor Yazdanshahr Conservatory in Qom, as well as to individual teachers, but has not heard back.

The mother said that one of her daughters was poisoned last week. She said they spent two days at the hospital with other people. Her daughter experienced nausea, shortness of breath and numbness in her left leg and right hand, she said.

The Iranian schoolgirls are poisoned schools, and the issue is deeply troubling for the public, a defense specialist tells CNN

Einollahi said that his team took a number of patient samples from a hospital in Qom to be analyzed at Iran’s prestigious Pasteur Institute, which did not find anything strange in the samples.

Younes Panahi was quoted by IRNA as saying at a news conference that after the poisoning of several students, people wanted all schools to be closed. He later retracted the comment, saying he was misquoted, Fars news said.

But a mother of two girls in Qom told CNN that both of her daughters had been poisoned, at two different schools, and one of them had experienced significant health issues after being poisoned last week. She spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the reports, and fears for her family’s safety.

“We’ve seen these reports, these are very disturbing, these are very concerning reports,” Price said.”To poison girls who are simply trying to learn is simply an abhorrent act.”

Price urged Iranian authorities to do everything they can to stop the poisonings and to hold the perpetrators accountable.

Dan Kaszeta, a London based defense specialist and an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, spoke to CNN about the difficulties authorities may face in confirming reports like these.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/01/middleeast/iran-schoolgirls-poisoned-schools-intl/index.html

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It can be difficult to investigate such incidents. Often, the only way to discover the causative agent is to collect samples at the time of dissemination, and this is usually difficult or impossible,” he said.

Kaszeta went on to explain that smells are difficult to use as an indicator. “Some things have smell added to them as the underlying dangerous chemical may be odorless.”

A special team was formed in Tehran to follow up on the school poisonings that happened in February, according to a report in Tasnim.