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Iran’s supreme chief has condemned a wave of suspected poison assaults which have affected women in dozens of faculties as an “unforgivable crime”.
“The perpetrators of this crime have to be severely punished. There will probably be no amnesty for such folks,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated on Monday, based on state media.
This was the primary time that Ayatollah Khamenei, who has the ultimate say in all main state issues, has commented on the poisonings which have apprehensive mother and father throughout the nation.
The primary instances of mysterious sicknesses had been reported in November.
Since, a whole bunch of schoolgirls have been handled in hospitals throughout the nation.
Colleges for women have virtually solely been affected.
Mother and father and kinfolk are outraged and offended, particularly as there’s nonetheless no official clarification.
Iran’s authorities believes the ladies are being intentionally poisoned, maybe by hardline teams opposed to women’ schooling.
Medical doctors have prompt some form of poisonous fuel could possibly be the supply of the assaults.
In the meantime, Iranian newspaper Entekhab and different native media reported {that a} journalist based mostly within the metropolis of Qom, the place the primary instances of poisoning occurred, was arrested by authorities.
The journalist Ali Pourtabatabaei had been recurrently overlaying the poisonings in Qom, a deeply conservative non secular middle about 150 kilometers south of Tehran that’s particularly essential for Shia Muslims.
His arrest doesn’t contribute to the “demystification of the rumors and information,” the reform politician and journalist Abbas Abdi wrote on Twitter.
“I hope he will probably be launched quickly.”
-DPA
