Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that if the suspected poisonings are proven to be deliberate, the culprits should be sentenced to death
Iran’s supreme leader said Monday that if a series of suspected poisonings at girls’ schools are proven to be deliberate the culprits should be sentenced to death for committing an “unforgivable crime.”
Authorities have acknowledged suspected attacks at more than 50 schools across 21 of Iran’s 30 provinces since November. Videos of upset parents and schoolgirls in emergency rooms with IVs in their arms have flooded social media. The protests were sparked by the death of a young woman who had been detained by morality police for allegedly violating the country’s strict dress code. Religious hard-liners in Iran have been known to attack women they perceive as dressing immodestly in public. But even at the height of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, women and girls continued attending schools and universities.
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