Iran's president orders probe of poisoning at girls' schools

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : FILE - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addresses lawmakers while defending his next year's budget bill at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023.
42% : But there's no opposition to women's education in Shiite Islam, and Iran has even called on the Taliban in Afghanistan to let women and girls return to school.
37% : Unlike neighboring Afghanistan, Iran has no history of religious extremists targeting girls' education.
30% : The poisonings come at a sensitive time for Iran, which has faced months of nationwide protests since a young woman died in September after being arrested by the morality police for allegedly violating Iran's strict Islamic dress code.

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