February 21, 2025
Last year, the media in Iran were filled with false reports of girls’ schools being hit with poison gas. Now there has been a real case. On December 6, some 44 women students living in a dorm at Shahid Beheshti University were hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning.
The source of the gas is assumed to be a fault in the building heating system, but the cause has not yet been pinpointed with certainty. This dormitory is located on Daneshjo Boulevard in the Velenjak District of Tehran. The “poisonings” last year mainly affected girls’ high schools and junior high schools.
No gases were ever found, and the source was finally attributed simply to mass hysteria, though the government long resisted that. Such gas hysteria has been reported in girls’ schools in many countries over the decades.