Iran Says More Than 100 Arrested Over School Poisoning, Perpetrators’ Links to ‘Hostile Groups’ Suspected
State media reported late Saturday that the interior ministry had announced the arrests over the suspected poison attacks in more than 200 schools
Iran has announced more than 100 arrests nationwide within the mystery poisonings of thousands of schoolgirls, charging you that the unidentified perpetrators are alleged to have actually links with “hostile” groups.
In the revolution of instances since late November, schoolgirls have actually suffered fainting, nausea, shortness of breath, and other symptoms after reporting “unpleasant” odors on school premises, with a few being treated in hospital.
State news reported late Saturday that the ministry that is interior announced the arrests of the suspected poison attacks of much more than 200 schools, which have sparked fear and anger among pupils and their parents.
“More than 100 individuals who had been accountable for the college that is recent were identified, arrested and investigated,” the ministry said in a statement, carried by state news agency IRNA.
“Among those arrested are people with hostile motives and with the aim of instilling terror within the people and students and to shut schools.”
The ministry added that “fortunately, from the middle of the week that is last today, the number of incidents in schools has decreased significantly, and there have been no reports of unwell students”
The statement pointed at feasible links to an Albania-based exiled opposition that is Iranian that Tehran considers a “terrorist” organization, the People’s Mujahedin of Iran or Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK).
“The investigation among these criminal people, like the finding of their connection that is possible with terrorist organizations such as the MEK among others, is ongoing,” reported IRNA.
The poisonings started two months into the protests that gripped Iran following the September 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a Kurd that is ethnic who had been arrested over an alleged violation of strict dress rules for women.
Iran has blamed those protests, which it commonly labels “riots”, on hostile forces abroad linked to its arch-foes the United States, Israel, and their allies.
More than 5,000 pupils are affected in approximately 230 schools across 25 out of Iran’s 31 provinces, the state that is latest tally said.
The ministry stated arrests had been made in the provinces of Tehran, Qom, and Gilan in the north, Razavi Khorasan within the northeast, West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan, and Zanjan within the northwest, Kurdistan and Hamadan in the west, Khuzestan in the southwest and Fars within the south.
