Over 1,000 Iranian students suffer ‘poisoning’ ahead of mass protests

By Rachel Schilke

Published December 6, 2022 6:08pm ET

Over 1,000 Iranian students suffer ‘poisoning’ ahead of mass protests — Fighters with Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, wave Iraqi flags while mourners and family members prepare to bury the body of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias who was killed in a US airstrike in Iraq on Friday, in Wadi al-Salam, or "Valley of Peace" cemetery, during his funeral procession in Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. | (Anmar Khalil/AP)

The night before a swell of protests against the Iranian regime was set to take place, 1,200 Iranian university students were struck with food poisoning.

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