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And nobody wants to have noticed anything in the surveillance state of Iran?
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“They fear that the system will fall with the headscarf.” The picture shows President Ebrahim Raisi talking to veiled schoolgirls.
(Photo: Iranian Presidency/Imago)
Girls have been poisoned in Iranian schools for months. The regime has been remarkably inactive in investigating, even though the country has a huge security apparatus. Do the perpetrators have ties to the government?
From
Tomas Avenarius, Berlin
Desperate and horrified parents protest in front of Iranian schools. After a month-long wave of gas poisonings in educational institutions, many harbor a suspicion: They believe that the regime of the Islamic Republic, which has come under pressure from the latest wave of protests, wants to deter girls and women in their own country from supporting future women’s protests with the unsolved gas attacks.
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