Iranian teachers protest over suspected poisonings of schoolgirls
Activists hold placards reading "Woman, Life, Freedom" with portraits of women who were killed in Iran, during a demonstration to mark the International Women's Day, in London, Wednesday, March 8, 2023
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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