IRANIAN teachers protested on Tuesday against suspected poisonings targeting schoolgirls.
Angry over what they described as the government’s slow response, teachers took to the streets in a number of Iranian cities, including Ahvaz, Isfahan, Karaj, Mashhad, Rasht, Sanandaj, Saqqez and Shiraz.
The protests come as an activist group and a prominent lawmaker put the number of those reporting poisoning symptoms into the thousands across hundreds of schools.
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The civilian toll climbs past 1,000 as women, children and families are struck in their homes, schools and public spaces – a stark illustration of the human cost of war. AZAR SEPEHR emphasises that the future of Iran is solely determinable by the people of that country and them alone



