Young women and girls have been at the forefront of this revolution. For their troubles, they are now being deliberately poisoned with chemical gas. It started 3 months ago in Qom where students in school became affected and later hospitalized. One girl that we know of has died.
Over the last week these attacks on girls in schools have escalated. Hundreds of girls have been poisoned through a coordinated campaign across the country. The goal – to stop girls receiving an education and as payback for their active participation in wanting a better future for their country.
The response from the authorities is predictable – ignore, then deflect. First they ignored there was anything happening at all. The girls are stressed and women are always hysterical and can’t control their emotions. Then it’s the work of the enemy – the US and now they are ‘investigating’.
International media is covering this in the typical way too – with words like ‘mysterious’ and ‘alleged’. A BBC headline even questions the whole thing: “Are Iranian schoolgirls being poisoned by toxic gas?” which is really something in the age when some believe women have achieved equality.
What we do know is that thousands of children as young as in primary school and older in university suddenly take ill. They cannot breathe, they feel nauseous and in some cases need hospitalization. The schools’ CCTV cameras have also mysteriously stopped working. In many cases, girls talk about Basij being with the school grounds or loitering outside just before the incident. They also talk of not being let out and parents not being able to be reunited with their children. Of parents being pressured to say God knows what. But anything other than state the facts.
Most do not believe the government’s line that they are investigating. Particularly not when the country is overrun with spies and security personnel watching everyone’s every move. It is inconceivable that some backyard laboratory is creating these chemical cocktails that magically appear in girl’s schools with NOBODY knowing how, when or why. So the sensible and probable conclusion from a government with a complete lack of empathy is that it is committing genocide and chemical warfare on its own people. What will the international community do? Ignore it like they have all the other dictators that have done the same to their people? Or finally have some spine and confront this evil?
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