The Iranian Interior Ministry announced that more than 100 people have been identified, arrested and investigated for the recent cases of poisoning of students, especially female students, in the provinces of Tehran, Qom, Zanjan, Khuzestan, Hamedan, Fars, Gilan, West Azarbaijan, East Azarbaijan, Kordestan and Khorasan Razavi.
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In the various episodes, which began last November, the students suffered from fainting, nausea, suffocation and other symptoms after reporting “unpleasant” smells in the school premises, and some even ended up in hospital. “The first investigations show that a certain number of these people, out of malice or adventurism and with the aim of closing the classrooms and influenced by the psychological climate created, have adopted measures such as the use of harmless and malodorous substances – reads the statement of the ministry statement -. Among those arrested there are individuals who have had hostile motives, tried to create fear and horror among people and students, close schools and create pessimism towards Islamic power”.
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The Interior Ministry then concluded by saying that “investigations are underway to find possible links with terrorist organizations and that the number of poisoning episodes has decreased in recent days”.
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