Above all, this announcement comes in response to the anger of parents of students, mobilized for several days to call on the authorities to act. Because in total, “more than 5,000 students have been affected” In “some 230 schools” located in 25 of the 31 provinces of the country since the end of November, according to information from Mohammad-Hassan Asafari, a member of the parliamentary commission of inquiry responsible for shedding light on the causes of this wave of poisonings. Despite these thousands of young women affected, it took several months for the authorities to react.