{"id":1770566,"date":"2022-12-09T11:07:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770566"},"modified":"2022-12-09T11:18:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:18:38","slug":"1200-iranian-university-students-stricken-with-mass-food-poisoning-on-eve-of-mass-anti-regime-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/1200-iranian-university-students-stricken-with-mass-food-poisoning-on-eve-of-mass-anti-regime-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"1,200 Iranian University Students Stricken With Mass Food Poisoning on Eve of Mass Anti-Regime Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F1200-iranian-university-students-stricken-with-mass-food-poisoning-on-eve-of-mass-anti-regime-protests%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770566&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mr.cdn.ignitecdn.com\/client_assets\/humanevents_com\/media\/picture\/6392\/ef7f\/3849\/010d\/7fd8\/fdce\/original_Untitled_design_-_2022-12-09T001841.250.jpg?1670573951\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"     style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                1,200 university students in Iran came down with food poisoning the night before anti-regime protests were scheduled to be held throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>The national student union\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/t.me\/senfi_uni_iran\/7512\">alleged Thursday<\/a> that students at Ark and Kharazmi universities experienced vomiting, hallucinations, and severe body aches. Similar outbreaks were reported at four other universities.<\/p>\n<p>In response, unaffected students boycotted the cafeterias and the student union claimed that the students were intentionally poisoned.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/06\/1200-iranian-students-poisoned-ahead-of-mass-protests\/\">New York Post<\/a><\/em>, the group wrote on Telegram, \u201cOur past experiences of similar incidents at the Isfahan university negates the authorities\u2019 reason for this mass food poisoning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outlet added that local officials cited water-borne bacteria as the cause of the symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Arab News reported that some of the university clinics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2211576\/middle-east\">ran out of supplies<\/a> and were forced to shut down\u00a0to treat dehydration, causing many to speculate that the outbreak was planned to quell the planned three-day strike in response to the Iranian regime\u2019s claims to have shut down its morality police, but signs indicating that they had not actually followed through on disbanding the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Despite initial\u00a0reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-iran-abolishes-morality-police-considers-changing-hijab-laws-after-months-of-protests\">the morality police were disbanded<\/a>, other reports <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/05\/iran-didnt-ban-morality-police-it-duped-press-and-biden-administration\/\">clarified<\/a>\u00a0that the move could not be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The morality police, formally known as the Gasht-e Ershad, or \u201cGuidance Patrol\u201d was established in 2006 to enforce the county\u2019s strict dress code for women which dates back to the 1979 revolution, and imposes a strict dress code requiring all women to wear hijab head coverings in public.<\/p>\n<p>The group was the focus of protests following the\u00a0death of 22-year-old student Mahsa Amini\u00a0in police custody in September who was allegedly arrested because her hijab revealed some of her hair and was beaten as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Amini\u2019s death triggered mass women-led protests across the country. The women openly violated the hijab requirement by uncovering their hair in public and even burning their hijabs. Thousands have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>During the <a href=\"https:\/\/humanevents.com\/2022\/12\/06\/israeli-journalists-and-fans-report-widespread-hostility,-discrimination-by-world-cup-attendees-from-arab-states\">World Cup<\/a>, Iranian players and fans refused to sing the country\u2019s national anthem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/foreigndesknews.com\/top-story\/islamic-republic-officials-set-to-freeze-bank-accounts-of-women-refusing-to-wear-a-hijab\/\">Foreign Desk<\/a><\/em>, officials in Tehran are now planning to freeze the bank accounts of women who refuse to wear a hijab. Last month, government officials voted for <a href=\"https:\/\/humanevents.com\/2022\/11\/10\/iran-votes-to-execute-15000-participants-in-women-led-protests\">harsher penalties<\/a> for the protesters which could even include death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1,200 university students in Iran came down with food poisoning the night before anti-regime protests were scheduled to be held throughout the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1897317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[7253,7251,5458,7252,4397,4921,6027,4350,3970,3819,7250,4072,4861],"class_list":["post-1770566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-7253","tag-anti-regime","tag-bongino","tag-eve","tag-food","tag-iranian","tag-mass","tag-poisoning","tag-protests","tag-report","tag-stricken","tag-students","tag-university"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}