March 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The spokesman for Iran’s judicial apparatus, Masud Satayshi, has urged this Tuesday to call the cases of poisoning in the different educational centers of the country a “disease”, which have already resulted in nearly 13,000 affected students.
Satayshi has affirmed in a press conference that it is not correct to speak of cases of “poisoning”, since said terminology has to be confirmed first through tests in specialized toxicology laboratories.
Thus, he has reiterated that, so far, the “findings” indicate that there have been no poisonings. Satayshi has also reported the arrest of eight people in Fars province in connection with these cases of “illness” in educational centers.
For his part, an Iranian government spokesman on Tuesday attributed the cases to the Iranian opposition, led by foreign agents as a result of anti-government protests after the death of the young Mahsa Amini.
“Recent school incidents showed the nature of some people who claimed to support women and their development, but wanted to close the schools,” spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi said at a press conference, according to the IRNA news agency.
The presidential spokesman also reiterated in an interview with the Iran Press news agency that the recent events “are in line with the actions of enemy institutions.” “The record of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the field of women is clear,” he defended.
Both the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the President, Ebrahim Raisi, have considered these incidents part of a conspiracy orchestrated from abroad. Khamenei has stated that the poisonings are “an unforgivable crime” and has called for “harsh punishments” against those responsible.
