The state-run Mehr news agency has reported that another 44 students at Ahmadieh girls high school in Borujerd were poisoned on Saturday, February 25, 2023.
This latest incident follows similar poisoning cases on February 21 and 22, which saw 20 and 62 students taken to the hospital, respectively, experiencing symptoms of dizziness, weakness, and lethargy.
The girls high school in Borujerd had closed on Thursday, February 23, due to the poisoning incidents but resumed classes on Saturday. While the authorities are investigating, no cause has been announced yet.
The poisoning of high school girls in Borujerd is part of a chain of similar incidents that have occurred in Qom, Tehran, Isfahan, and Chaharmahal-e Bakhtiari.
The Attorney General of the clerical regime, Jafar Montazeri, expressed concern belatedly on February 20 about the possibility of deliberate criminal acts in these educational centers.
Since November 30, around 500 high school students, mostly girls, have been poisoned in the ongoing chain of poisoning incidents. Despite this, Iranian authorities have downplayed the significance of the issue, but a member of the parliamentary health committee has questioned why these incidents only happen in girls high schools and not in other public places.
The semi-official Asriran website has drawn comparisons between the poisoning of high school girls in Iran and similar incidents in Afghanistan eight years ago.
Last week, a group of extremists in Qom distributed threatening leaflets, vowing to spread the poisoning of high school girls to schools across Iran if girls continue to go to school.
All the evidence suggests that the ruling criminal gangs are targeting high school girls in a heinous attempt to terrify them and prevent them from going to school. They are substituting the Morality Police patrols to terrorize the public and prevent further protests and uprisings.
The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran has condemned these criminal actions and has called for the intervention of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission, as Mrs. Maryam Rajavi emphasizes that the ongoing tragedy of the poisoning of innocent girls in Qom would not be possible without the active involvement of the IRGC or the Ministry of Intelligence and other state bodies.
