Iran’s Minister of Education described the student poisonings as misrepresented
Yousef Nouri, Iran’s Minister of Education, says the series of poisonings in schools was misrepresented and then exaggerated much worse
He stated that the recent incidents had an initial source but were misrepresented and then exaggerated much worse. Some of it might have been said by unofficial domestic networks, even some official and mass media networks. The enemy, being the enemy, rode this wave and did something that made parents very worried.
He did not provide an explanation about the initial source or perpetrators of this series of incidents