News emerged today about strange incidents that have taken place in Iran since last November, during a wave of widespread tension in Iran due to what the morality police had done in the case of Mahsa Amini. The incident is represented in the exposure of school students to poisoning in more than one school, and with the recurrence of incidents, the matter became suspicious.
The first incident targeted more than 250 girls in several schools in the Iranian city of Qom on November 30, then cases of poisoning appeared in ten other schools belonging to other Iranian provinces. The Iranian city of Qom is distinguished for being a religious beacon and a symbol of religiosity.
A few days ago, cases of poisoning reappeared in several girls' schools in the Iranian capital, which prompted the government to open an investigation, but it does not seem that it was dealing with the matter seriously enough.
All the accusations were leveled at conservative groups that refuse to let girls study, even if it is in private schools, to prevent mixing with boys. Their way of expressing their ideas may seem strange, but it helps them since the government is tacitly complicit with them and may be encouraging them since educated women who were leading the recent demonstrations and caused the abolition of the morality police in a historical precedent.
The matter appeared to the public after the German Foreign Ministry and the United Nations announced today their deep concern over the silence of the Iranian government in this regard, and demanded transparent investigations into the matter.
Religious fanaticism is the bane of religion. Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others promote peace and harmony. But some religious teachers introduced inhuman views and beliefs and so many people became disciples and followed these teachings.
Without education how would the girlchild understand religious teachings? How will they live a good life? Women shouldn't be treated less than animals. I don't think there is any religion that supports the poisoning of people because of their divergent beliefs. These actions by these fanatics is brutal and barbaric. The government should investigate this crime and bring the perpetrators to book. But, sadly, the government supports this inhuman action but they can stop the protest by violence because it can further fuel it.