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Iranian president orders probe of poisoning at girls' schools

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    -10% Center

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    45% ReliableFair

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

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.
40% :READ MORE: Iran pardons some protesters, revealing 'tens of thousands' detainedAfter months of downplaying the poisonings, state-run IRNA filed multiple stories on the subject on Sunday in which officials acknowledged the scope of the incidents.
37% : Unlike neighboring Afghanistan, Iran has no history of religious extremists targeting girls' education.
30% :READ MORE: UN report says uranium particles enriched up to 83.7 percent found in IranChildren have complained about headaches, heart palpitations, feeling lethargic or otherwise unable to move.
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.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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