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Iran’s schoolgirl poisonings and the challenge for the clerics

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Are We Any Closer to Knowing Who's Behind the Poisonings?

Hundreds of school girls have been hospitalized across the country since November, in a wave of mysterious poisonings. President Abraham Raisi blames foreign enemies, but at a weekend demonstration in Tehran, parents chanted that the enemy is inside Iran. So, what is going on in Iran? And how could this play out for the country's clerical rulers? Michael Georgi explains.

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