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Iranian school girls being poisoned or mass sociogenic illness?

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Nimbostratus100 · 03/03/2023 18:17

Repeated mass collapses of school girls in girls schools across Iran - no known cause

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-64829798

but no serious symptoms either, and a fast recovery

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HermioneWeasley · 03/03/2023 18:29

I firmly believe they are being poisoned. It’s hardly far fetched given they are being beaten and raped to death by their government.

Fastfad · 09/03/2023 17:15

1000% they are being poisoned, there are countless videos of the mullahs saying that schools and universities are "more dangerous to us than a bomb". This is a pattern that the Taliban used between 2010-12 to close girls schools and distance them from their education, leading to total isolation from any education at all, which is happening now, as you probably know. Also in Iran since the protests, we have seen university students poisoned en masse, to stop their protests and weaken the force they were gathering in voicing their dissent against the totalitarian regime. The following days they threw their refectory meal trays into the courtyards, untouched and had mass shared picnics of their own home food outside in the campus to show their resistance. These things are common tactics by this regime.

It seems far fetched, but in the past even in the UK the government tested germ warfare in Oxford street during the cold war! The files are public knowledge now here is The Independent reporting on it. And it was not only UK. USA tested chemicals on black people by injecting them and lying as to what it was, in Louisiana, Tuscany. Historically, the term "hysteria" has been used to put women down and devalue their protests. In Victorian England doctors and husbands routinely forced women to have their wombs removed as they were believed to be the source of their over-passionate "hysteria", hence the medical term "hysterectomy". They also used to pull ALL their teeth out for being difficult as it was believed to placate them, or put them in mental homes for having kids outside of marriage.

So you see it is not far fetched. As far as the things The Islamic(ist, as we should really be calling them) Regime do to surpress the people and maintain their mafia-like control, I will not horrify you with the details, just believe me, this is nothing. The Islamicist Regime hates women, hates schoolgirls (see the videos of school girls rebelling their bring tears to the eyes! They have had enough and risk everything!) and hates minorities, they regularly make people chant nonsensical things such as "Death To America!", yet take no criticism themselves. Look up the hashtags #womanlifefreedom #jinjiyanazadi #mahsaamini #opiran and #iranrevolution to see more.

FlyingCapybara40 · 09/03/2023 22:30

OP, you would probAbly enjoy a book by Suzanne Sullivan cAlled The Sleeping Beauties. It addresses similar stories to this one.

exexpat · 09/03/2023 22:50

I would normally say the Iranian government is capable of anything when it comes to suppressing women and protestors, but there are many factors going on with these current 'poisonings' that make it much more likely to be psychogenic.

1: almost entirely confined to teenage girls, who have been under immense psychological stress in recent months (mass psychogenic illnesses are most common in groups of young women and girls); 2: lots of symptoms which clear up rapidly and can easily be caused by anxiety; 3: multiple incidents in multiple widespread locations over a period of months, but no clear proof of any poison, gas or whatever, or any evidence of who could actually be delivering all this poison or by what method, however news of the incidents spreads widely and rapidly via the internet and can trigger new outbreaks in psychologically primed and vulnerable groups.

www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/why-schoolgirl-poisonings-in-iran-are-likely-mass-psychogenic-illness/ar-AA18qm7h

There have been very similar outbreaks in recent years in Afghanistan and Malaysia as well as the US and other western countries. The international surge in tic disorders amongst teenagers during the pandemic seems to be have been a mass psychogenic illness spread via tiktok.

Fastfad · 20/03/2023 11:41

Only a troll for the regime would write that! It's a gruesome regime who would stop at nothing, and this is tactic used by the Taliban when they were first trying to distance girls from education in 2012.

HermioneWeasley · 20/03/2023 11:43

i thought the Iranian government had admitted they were doing it as a punishment. Because they have no shame and don’t think women and girls are fully human.

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