Hundreds of Schoolgirls in Iran Fall Sick. Officials Suspect Poisoning.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : The first reports of girls' falling sick emerged three months ago in the religious city of Qom, which is about 80 miles southwest of the capital, Tehran.
39% : The reports of hundreds of students falling sick across Iran have surged in the past few days, according to local news reports, officials and rights activists.
38% : In one case, videos showed security forces in plain clothes beating and attacking a screaming mother outside a school in Tehran.
36% : "Poisoning female students intentionally is very bad news," Mr. Monadi said, according to official news reports in Iran.
33% : "It is adding to the collective trauma and anxiety in Iran."
32% : Hundreds of schoolgirls in Iran have been hospitalized in over 10 cities after falling sick with respiratory, cardiac and neurological symptoms, and senior officials said they might have been deliberately poisoned.
32% : The union representing teachers in Iran said on Wednesday that 26 schools had been targeted, including at least one elementary school, with students showing symptoms of toxic poisoning.

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