In order to stop girls from going to school, some people were poisoning schoolgirls in the holy city of Qom, said Iranian deputy minister on Sunday. Since late November, hundreds of cases of respiratory poisoning among schoolgirls, mostly in Qom, south of Tehran, have been recorded; some of these cases required hospitalisation. Younes Panahi, the deputy health minister,
Industrial workers including several thousand at the Isfahan Steel, Sanandaj Petrochemical, and Sepahan Cement works and bus drivers in Mashhad joined the protests.
Add to the chaotic nature of street protests and heavy-handed government response that have overtaken Iran is the confusion now over if the country will be rid of its oppressive morality police. The enforcers of the ruling mullahs’ concept of public piety first set the demonstrations in motion when 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died at their hands after being arrested for not properly wearing her hijab.
TEHRAN Iran has scrapped its morality police after more than two months of protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini following her arrest for allegedly violating the country's strict female dress code, an official said Sunday.Women-led protests, labelled "riots" by the authorities, have swept Iran since the 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin died on September 16,