Tehran (EFE).- Iran suffered this Saturday new cases of gas poisoning in female educational centers in which dozens of students were poisoned throughout the Persian country.
The Iranian authorities reported new cases of poisoning in five schools in the city of Ardabil (northwest), in a center in Urmia (northwest) and in another in Haftgel (southwest), where 60 girls were affected, various official media such as ILNA reported. .
As in previous cases, those affected showed symptoms such as headaches, breathing difficulties or dizziness.
An unknown number of students were admitted to hospitals, but the Iranian media did not provide specific data.
Activist groups such as 1500tasvir raised the cases today to at least 12 schools and institutes scattered throughout the geography of the Persian country.
“Mama, Mama” students exclaim at the gates of the Saadi primary school in the city of Urmia after a gas attack, according to a video shared by activists on social networks.
In another image, a teenager is seen lying on the ground, whom a woman tries to help in the city of Ardabil.
New wave of poisonings in Iran that already number thousands affected
Iran has suffered a wave of gas poisonings that began in late November in the holy city of Qom and multiplied in February and March.
Around 5,000 female students from 230 educational centers in 25 of the Iranian provinces would have been affected, according to data provided in March by parliamentarian Mohammad-Hassan Asafari, a member of a commission investigating the poisonings.
The Iranian government has arrested more than 100 people for their alleged responsibility in the poisonings, which it has attributed to enemies of the country.
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, which had calmed down after strong state repression.
The students of schools and institutes participated in these protests, took off their veils, shouted “woman, life, freedom” and made contemptuous gestures at portraits of Khamenei and the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruholá Khomeini.
