Hundreds of Iranian schoolgirls targeted in mystery poisonings as supreme leader urges death penalty for "unforgivable crime"

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : Religious hard-liners in Iran have been known to attack women they perceive as dressing immodestly in public.
37% : Unlike neighboring Afghanistan, Iran has no history of religious extremists targeting women's education.
37% : "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," Khamenei said, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.
32% : Iran has imposed stringent restrictions on independent media since the outbreak of nationwide protests in September, making it difficult to determine the nature and scope of the suspected poisonings.
32% : "Now the girls of Iran are paying the price for fighting against the compulsory hijab and have been poisoned by the government," tweeted New York-based activist Masih Alinejad.
32% : In January, the Justice Department charged three men in an alleged plot that originated in Iran to kill Alinejad.

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