Raisi didn’t say who the enemies have been, though Tehran habitually accuses the US and Israel of appearing in opposition to it.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has blamed a wave of poisonings of tons of of schoolgirls across the nation on Tehran’s enemies.
The so-far unexplained poison assaults at greater than 30 faculties in at the least 4 cities began in November in Iran’s Shia Muslim holy metropolis of Qom, prompting some mother and father to take their kids out of faculty.
Iran’s well being minister stated on Tuesday that tons of of women in numerous faculties have been affected and a few politicians have instructed they might have been focused by non secular teams opposed to ladies’ training.
Raisi, talking to a crowd in southern Iran on Friday in a speech carried reside on state tv, blamed the poisoning on Iran’s enemies.
“This can be a safety venture to trigger chaos within the nation whereby the enemy seeks to instil worry and insecurity amongst mother and father and college students,” he stated.
He didn’t say who these enemies have been, though Iranian leaders habitually accuse the USA and Israel, amongst others, of appearing in opposition to it.
Individually, a senior Iranian official stated a gas tanker discovered subsequent to a college in a Tehran suburb and which had additionally been noticed in two different cities was most likely concerned within the poisonings.
Authorities seized the tanker and arrested its driver, stated Reza Karimi Saleh, the deputy governor of the Pardis suburb.
Saleh is the primary authorities official to report an arrest in reference to the wave of poisonings.
He stated the identical tanker had additionally been to Qom and Borujerd, in Lorestan Province in western Iran, the place college students have additionally suffered from poisoning. He did not elaborate.
“Guards at a parking zone the place the gas tanker was parked additionally suffered from poisoning,” Saleh stated, referring to the Pardis website.
Requires investigation
In Geneva, the United Nations human rights workplace on Friday referred to as for a clear investigation into the assaults.
“We’re very involved about these allegations that women are being intentionally focused beneath what look like mysterious circumstances,” Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights, informed a briefing.
She stated the findings of a authorities investigation must be made public and the perpetrators dropped at justice.
Becoming a member of worldwide calls, German international minister Annalena Baerbock stated the reviews have been stunning and have to be totally investigated.
“Ladies should be capable to go to high school with out worry,” Baerbock stated on Twitter. “That is nothing lower than their human proper. All circumstances have to be totally investigated.
The US State Division spokesperson had on Wednesday referred to as on Iran to analyze the circumstances of poisoning in faculties.
Some Iranian politicians have instructed the schoolgirls might have been focused by non secular teams opposed to ladies’ training.
Social media posts are replete with images and movies of hospitalized women. Some stated they have been nauseated and suffered coronary heart palpitations. Others complained of complications or coronary heart palpitations. The posts couldn’t be verified.
Schoolgirls have additionally taken half within the anti-government protests triggered by the dying in custody of an Iranian-Kurdish girl final September, They’ve eliminated their necessary hijabs in school rooms, torn up photos of Supreme Chief Ali Hosseini Khamenei and referred to as for his dying.
In a single on-line video final yr, schoolgirls are seen waving their headscarves within the air and heckling a member of Iran’s paramilitary Basij power.
