A string of poisoning incidents that rocked Iran over the last few months appears to be crossing over to its neighbor, Afghanistan, as the Taliban continues to crack down on the rights and freedoms
The first known incident of schoolgirl poisoning occurred on November 30 in the city of Qom, when about 50 students fell ill and were taken to the hospital.
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,