Iranian authorities announced the first arrests linked to a series of mysterious poisonings of schoolgirls across the country.
"A number of people have been arrested in five provinces and the relevant agencies are conducting a full investigation," said Iran's deputy Interior Minister, Majid Mirahmadi, on state television.
"It certainly sounds like a chemical or biological event," Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a British chemical weapons expert, told CBS News."That is not something that appears to be naturally occurring." Iranian leaders and officials don't appear to have reached any consensus on the cause — unusual for the top-down authoritarian regime run by Islamic clerics.
"Over 99% of this is caused by stress, rumors and psychological war, started particularly by hostile TV channels, to create a troubled and stressful situation for students and their parents," Mirahmadi said previously, before announcing the arrests on Tuesday.
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