In a shocking revelation Iranian Deputy Health Minister Younes Panahi has accused that hundreds of girls were poisoned to stop them from getting an education in Iran. Panahi also said that several girls have been diagnosed with lung poisoning in Qom near Tehran.
Panahi alleged that the poisoning was planned and that it was a move by some to prevent girls from getting an education. Some want to close down all educational institutions especially schools for girls. That’s what this mass poisoning is all about.
“After the poisoning of several students in Qom schools, it was found that some people wanted all schools, especially girls’ schools, to be closed,” the IRNA state news agency quoted Panahi.
IRNA reported that no arrests have yet been made in connection with the poisoning.
The matter came to the fore on February 14 when parents of students who had were ill demonstrated outside the city’s governorate to “demand an explanation” from the authorities.
The next day government spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi said the intelligence and education ministries were trying to find the cause of the poisonings.
Meanwhile, Prosecutor General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri ordered a judicial probe into the incidents.
The protests that erupted after the killing of 22-year-old Ahsa Amini for allegedly not wearing a hijab were big news around the world. After that, shocking new information is coming out from Iran.
