A crisis over suspected poisonings targeting Iranian schoolgirls is escalating as authorities now acknowledge over 50 schools had been struck in a wave of possible cases. It remains unclear who or what is responsible.
Vahidi said at least 52 schools had been affected by suspected poisonings. Iranian media reports have put the number of schools at over 60. At least one boy’s school reportedly has been affected.
The security force crackdown on those protests has seen at least 530 people killed and 19,700 others detained, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran., at the time believed to have been carried out by hard-liners targeting women for how they dressed.Speculation in Iran’s tightly controlled state media has focused on the possibility of exile groups or foreign powers being behind the poisonings. That was also repeatedly alleged during the recent protests without evidence.
“These poisonings are occurring in an environment where Iranian officials have impunity for the harassment, assault, rape, torture and execution of women peacefully asserting their freedom of religion or belief,” Sharon Kleinbaum of the commission said in a statement.Suspicion in Iran has fallen on possible hard-liners for carrying out the suspected poisonings.
“Reports of stench smells preceding the appearance of symptoms have given credit to the theory of mass poisoning,”. “However, investigations into the causes of these outbreaks have yielded no such evidence so far.”
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