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US, Germany Call For “Full” Probe Into Iranian Schoolgirl Poisonings

Iranwire – Germany has joined the United States in expressing concern over a wave of poisonings at girls’ schools across Iran and in calling on the country’s authorities to thoroughly investigate the incidents. Over the past three months, hundreds of school students, mostly girls, have been treated for poisoning symptoms, including nausea, headaches, coughing, breathing difficulties, and heart palpitations. Some …

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Blinding As A Weapon (18): “They Robbed My Eye, Not My Voice”

Iranwire – As IranWire has reported, hundreds of Iranians have sustained severe eye injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas cannisters, paintball bullets or other projectiles used by security forces amid a bloody crackdown on mainly peaceful demonstrations. Doctors say that, as of now, at least 580 protesters have lost one or both eyes in Tehran and in Kurdistan alone. …

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The Iranian FM’s Shameless Lies About Protests, Women, Freedom In Iran

Iranwire – Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Iranian foreign minister, was interviewed by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on the evening of March 1 as he was wrapping up a tense visit to Geneva, Switzerland. When asked direct and challenging questions related to the Islamic Republic’s bloody crackdown on months-long anti-government protests in which hundreds of people were killed and thousands were illegally arrested, …

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UNICEF Offers Help to Iran in Noxious Fume Incidents Affecting Schoolchildren

VOA – UNICEF offered Thursday to help Iran solve a series of incidents in which noxious fumes have sickened schoolchildren, particularly girls, in what some officials suspect is an attack on women’s education. “School is a safe haven for children and teenagers to learn in a safe and supportive environment,” the United Nations children’s humanitarian agency said in a Twitter …

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Iran: Chilling execution spree with escalating use of death penalty against persecuted ethnic minorities

Amnesty – The Iranian authorities have executed at least one Ahwazi Arab, 14 Kurds and 13 Baluchis following grossly unfair trials, and sentenced at least a dozen others to death since the start of the year, marking a chilling escalation in the use of the death penalty as a tool of repression against ethnic minorities, Amnesty International and Abdorrahman Boroumand …

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