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As the United States calls the chemical gas poisonings on girls’ schools ‘unconscionable,’ demands are growing on international bodies to investigate the incidents.

Iranians across the country have held anti-government protests outside education departments in dozens of cities demanding security protection for girls' schools and dormitories as mysterious chemical poisoning attacks continue.

Chemical attacks targeting female students with poison gas continued on Monday evening with two women's dormitories at Esfahan University of Medical Sciences.

US and Israeli officials have pledged to enhance coordination on measures to prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring a nuclear weapon and to further deter Iran’s hostile regional activities.

The Tehran prosecutor has announced criminal charges are being filed against the directors of three news outlets and three famous figures for reporting or commenting on the recent wave of gas attacks on girls' schools.

Western officials indicate there will be no censuring of Iran at a meeting of the UN watchdog, the IAEA this week in the wake of its visit to Tehran last weekend.

An Israeli air strike knocked Aleppo airport out of service on Tuesday and forced the Syria to reroute flights carrying aid for those affected by last month's earthquake.

A deputy health minister said Monday “irritant substances” were used in school gas attacks and claimed these had affected only “less than 10 percent” of students.

Regardless of the apparent hullabaloo about IAEA chief Rafael Grossi’s visit to Tehran, politicians and commentators in Iran appear to be skeptical about the outcome of the visit.

The Washington Post has quoted Western intelligence officials as saying that Ramin Yektaparast from Iran is the main suspect in organizing an attack in November on a Jewish cultural center in Essen, Germany.

The Islamic Republic's judiciary has threatened women who unveil in public as well as people behind the ongoing wave of chemical attacks on schoolgirls.

An Iranian official says the issue of obeying mandatory hijab is a matter of principle that the Islamic Republic cannot disregard as it is part of the Iranian “civilization”.

The Ukrainian Air Force said Monday it shot down 13 more Iranian drones that had taken off from southern Russia overnight to attack targets in Ukraine.

The head of UN’s nuclear agency, Rafael Grossi, told reporters on Monday that his meeting with Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi March 4 had “enormous importance.”

The Islamic Republic says it is ready for a prisoner swap with Belgium after the constitutional court in the European country upheld an exchange treaty.

Western officials say Moscow has hesitated to buy ballistic missiles from Tehran out of concern that Ukraine’s allies would in response supply Kyiv with long-range rockets.

Amid a wave of chemical attacks on schoolgirls across Iran, several teachers' and students' unions have called for nationwide protests on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Imprisoned journalist and human rights activist, Narges Mohammadi has called for more "street protests in Iran" over the poisoning of schoolgirls.

A prominent writer and member of the Writers' Association of Iran says his release was made possible by the power of the people's protest movement.

Iranian media say a journalist who had been following the news of gas attacks on girls’ schools in the religious city of Qom for the past few weeks, has been arrested.

Iran's ruler Ali Khamenei said Monday that poisoning of schoolgirls in recent months is an "unforgivable" crime and denied any government role in the attacks.