Reports suggest that chemical poisonings occurred in 116 separate schools--primarily girls' schools--in
#Iran
today. It’s difficult to imagine a scenario wherein the regime isn’t complicit in failing to protect these children. Here’s why: (1)
#مسمومیت_دانشآموزان
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Officials have blamed the poisonings on foreign actors. Others have suggested the attacks were the work of domestic groups who either aimed to punish girls sympathetic to the
#Mahsa_Amini
movement or sought to discourage girls from going to school. (2)
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It's unclear why--if foreign actors are indeed behind ongoing poisonings--the regime has not deployed the surveillance and security capabilities that it used to violently suppress protests during the
#Mahsa_Amini
movement to protect Iranian girls. (3)
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It’s also unclear why a foreign organization able to conduct complex, countrywide operations like this would risk agents and networks to make schoolgirls ill. (4)
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Many of these schools have security cameras, too. One girl (who experienced poisoning symptoms on two separate occasions) told the
@bbc
that her principal said the school’s CCTV had been “down for a week” when asked about a possible investigation. (5)
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Other girls reported being told to immediately return to class following a reported attack (those who were not experiencing symptoms), an almost unimaginable response in most countries. (6)
مدرسه دخترانه رضوان فردیس پس از #مسمومیت_دانشآموزان توسط جمهوری‌اسلامی.
گزارش: «این صحنه وقتیه که دانشآموزان داشتن سوار آمبولانس میشدن و میگفتن آمبولانس پُره دیگه بقیه رو سوار نمیکردن. مدیر مدرسه هم میگفت بچه ها صف وایسید، اونایی که حالشون بد نشده برن سر کلاس»
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Some students reported seeing
#Basij
members entering the facility before reported poisonings. CTP previously assessed that the regime is tolerating the country-wide campaign against
#IranianSchoolgirls
and those responsible for the attacks. (7)
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Footage shows
#Iranian
plainclothes officers violently forcing two female students into a car at an impacted school today, one of whom is shown crying out for her mother. (8)
بر اساس ویدئوی منتشر شده در شبکه‌های اجتماعی شنبه ۱۳ اسفند ۱۴۰۱، همزمان با ادامه #مسمومیت_سریالی دانشآموزان، ماموران حکومتی دو دختر دانش‌آموز را در دبیرستان رضوان شهر فردیس با خشونت سوار یک خودرو می‌کنند و می‌برند.
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It’s difficult to say which chemical agent students are describing. A doctor who is treating impacted students suggested the chemical may be a weak organophosphate agent. (9)
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A doctor in a
#Tehran
ICU observed that the compounds used to poison students were "mixed gases" that aren’t available to ordinary people in a recent interview. (10)
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At the very least, the
#IslamicRepublic
has de-prioritized protecting some of the most vulnerable segments of its people, which is consistent with its egregious treatment of Iranian girls in recent months. (11)
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None of this is, unfortunately, anomalous. The
#IslamicRepublic
has killed children—one of whom was 9 years old—in its violent suppression of ongoing unrest and it continues to brutally suppress girls whom it suspects might hold anti-regime views. (12)
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@criticalthreats
I don't think or believe the Iranian regime is directly or indirectly involved with the ongoing school girls' poisoning. Soon, the govt will catch the culprits. They can't run and hide forever.
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@criticalthreats
I'm very, very sceptical of the "chemical attack" claims. The events as reported exactly match previous episodes of mass hysteria among school-age girls, like the 1983 West Bank and 2009 Afghanistan outbreaks.
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@criticalthreats
Let's make it clear that It is not a chemical poisonings It is a chemical attacks. Chemical poisonings are typically accidental or unintentional, while chemical attacks are intentional and often used as a form of warfare or terrorism.
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