Deliberate poisonings of students continue in several Iranian cities
The plot to poison female students in girls' schools is taking on new dimensions every day, and the authorities are trying to cover up the regime's role in the crime with lies and contradictory scenarios.
Zahra Sheikhi, spokesperson for the mullahs' parliamentary health committee, was quoted by the official website Etemad on 1 March as saying: "800 schoolgirls were poisoned in Qom and 400 in Boroujerd".
But Ahmad Vahidi, the Interior Minister, unabashedly stated that "more than 90% of the poisonings were not caused by external factors, and most of them came from stress and worries caused by these news (...) so far (...) no case has been found that can clearly state that it is linked to a specific factor". (Tasnim Agency, 1 March).
At the same time, Alireza Monadi, chairman of the Mullahs' Parliamentary Education Committee, stated, "According to the test results, N2 gas was found in the poison spread in schools." (Fars Agency, 1 March)
The Bahar News website wrote on 27 February: "The deputy Health Minister in charge of the investigation admitted that the poisoning of the students was deliberate and said that some people wanted all girls' schools to be closed. But so far no one responsible has been arrested".
On Wednesday 1 March, high school girls were poisoned in several schools in Tehransar, Parand and Narmak in the capital. Families and students from these schools demonstrated in front of the schools and chanted "down with Khamenei", "trash, trash", "down with the dictator", "down with the child-killing government", "Khamenei Zahak (legendary tyrant), we will send you underground". The repressive forces, including plainclothes officers, threatened the families and detained a mother after beating her.
On Wednesday morning, students at eight girls' schools in Ardebil were poisoned with poison gas, ISNA reported on 1 March. "Nearly 100 female students have been poisoned today in Ardebil," mullahs' deputy Ghani Nazari said on official television that day. On Tuesday 28 February, students were poisoned in the residence of the Azad faculty in Boroujerd.
The clerical regime, enraged by the Iranian Resistance's revelation of the direct responsibility of the regime, the Revolutionary Guard Corps and other security forces, foolishly reported in its controlled media the discovery of "traces of the PMOI's involvement" in the poisoning of the schoolgirls.
The Hamshahri newspaper wrote: "Maryam Rajavi, in her tweet, referring to the continuation of these poisonings, using the words 'systematic crime', 'undoubtedly caused with malicious intent', tried to deflect the accusing finger from her side and point it at the Islamic Republic. Many experts in the field of politics consider this tweet as a proof of the PMOI's involvement in these serial poisonings (...) Proving the "misogynistic policies of the Islamic Republic" was one of the main approaches that the subversives, especially the PMOI, tried to induce that the serial poisoning of schoolgirls was a "systematic measure of the Islamic Republic" in order to "take revenge on the girls".
Maryam Rajavi, leader of the Iranian Resistance (NCRI), had announced in a tweet on 14 February: "the serial poisoning of schoolgirls (...) is not accidental, but a systematic crime and the result of the malicious intent of a regime whose misogynistic hysteria is redoubled by the role of girls in the uprising". Yesterday she referred to the continuation and propagation of the poisoning of schoolgirls: Khamenei's executioners replaced and supplemented the orientation patrol with this malicious act and used it as a tool to take revenge on the girls during the uprising. She called on young people to organise protests, and called on human, children's and women's rights bodies to condemn this mass crime, and on the UN rapporteurs on women and the UN Commission on the Status of Women to hold the mullahs' regime accountable. It called for a World Health Organisation delegation to investigate the catastrophe.