According to Iranian media, there have been over 2,500 cases of poisoning in schools. However, the authorities have remained mostly silent on the investigations, leading to further resentment and mistrust among the population. DW's ShabnamvonHein reports.
"We're getting reports from Iran almost every day about more schoolgirls being poisoned," says women's activist Fariba Balouch, who has been living in exile in London for the past three years."Parents are desperate and don't know who they can turn to," she told DW."This week, parents from the city of Chabahar contacted us. It's frightening that it's not stopping.
"The country should be in a state of pleasant anticipation right now, but there's almost no sense of that," says a 41-year-old mother from Tehran."Everyone is worried and angry." She is referring to the Iranian New Year festival, Nowruz, which takes place in less than two weeks. The new year in Iran starts with the spring, on March 20. The 13-day Nowruz festival is the most important in the Iranian calendar, comparable to Christmas in the West.
Experts in other countries are also unable to make any valid statements about the poisonings because of the lack of freely available information. Carsten Schleh, a German toxicologist, stressed this when approached by DW for comment. He pointed out that in many reports the poisoned schoolgirls are said to have mentioned a"When I read about the rotten smell, I immediately thought of hydrogen sulphide," he said.
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