Iran's supreme leader swears those who poisoned schoolgirls will face death

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52% : Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leading the prayer with Iranian girls ( Image: KHAMENEI.IR/AFP via Getty Images)One pupil at a school in Shahryar, near Tehran, said she and her classmates smelled "something very strange" and the next day, "many of the students fell ill and didn't come to school."
48% : Some say something similar could be playing out in Iran.
44% : Concrete evidence definitively linking the hospitalisations to poisoning attacks is yet to emerge and some experts outside Iran have said psychological factors could be playing a role in at least some of the cases.
36% : Iran's supreme leader has sworn that anyone found responsible following a spate of poisonings on schoolgirls will face the death penalty.
35% :Iranian high school students ( Image: AFP via Getty Images)"If the poisoning of students is proven, those behind this crime should be sentenced to capital punishment and there will be no amnesty for them," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.

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