The Iranian uprising in brief: day 213

The Iranian national uprising entered its 213th day on Sunday, as public anger intensified against the ruling mullahs in response to new chemical gas attacks by regime agents on innocent schoolgirls.

According to reports from the Iranian opposition, the People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), regime agents launched a chemical gas attack on Setayesh High School in Tehran's Persian Gulf district. Several students are in serious condition. School officials reportedly kept the children inside. Similar gas attacks and poisonings have been reported in other cities, including the Qassem Soleimani School in Tehran: 

• Qassem Soleimani School in the Shahin Villa district of Karaj, west of Tehran. 
• Taravat School and "23 Tir" School in Urmia, north-west of Iran, where at least 40 students fell ill and were hospitalised. 
• Me'raj High School in Ardabil, north-west Iran. 
• Tolu Eslam Institute in Tehran. 
• Yas Nabi High School in Qazvin, north-west Iran. 
• Naseri Girls' School in Harsin, western Iran. 

Pensioners and retirees, as well as workers of the Haft Tappeh sugar company, protested against the poor living conditions caused by the regime's destructive policies. On Sunday they held rallies in Shush, in southwestern Iran. Similar rallies were held in the cities of Ahvaz, Shushtar, Isfahan and Kermanshah. 

Retired metalworkers held a rally to protest their poor living conditions and the refusal of regime officials to meet their demands. The rally took place in the western districts of Alborz province, west of the capital Tehran. 

Nurses and medical staff from the central Iranian city of Qom rallied on Sunday outside the Qom University of Medical Sciences to protest against economic hardship and demand answers from regime officials. 

Female social science students at Tehran University began protesting against the regime's increasingly repressive regulations on the hijab. Similar protest rallies were reported in other cities, such as Rasht.   

Residents of Daniyal village in Motel-Qoo, Abbas Abad, Mazandaran province, resisted the regime's Foundations Organisation's attempt to seize their land. In response, the repressive forces opened fire, killing two people and wounding five. 

The leader of the Iranian Resistance (NCRI), Ms Maryam Rajavi, praised the brave people of Mazandaran for resisting the regime's oppressive forces.   

"I salute the brave people of Danial in Mazandaran province who resisted the aggression and looting by Khamenei's agents and stood up to the repressive forces. I express my sympathy and condolences to the families of the martyrs and wish a speedy recovery to the injured. I urge the youth to rise up against oppression and plunder and force the regime's mercenaries to withdraw. The clerical regime, its agents and its mercenaries only understand the language of violence," she declared.