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Iranian students face dangerous schools

Despite promises by government officials to improve school safety, the heating systems in some 130,000 Iranian schools remain dangerous.
Middle school students discuss earthquakes during countrywide earthquake-preparedness manoeuvres in Tehran November 29, 2007. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN) - RTX46FO

With the arrival of winter in Iran comes renewed fears of a repeat of the 2012 tragedy caused by a school's unsafe heating system.

On Dec. 6, Rasul Khezri, a representative from Piranshahr and Sardasht, announced to parliament that more than 130,000 classrooms in Iran did not have safe heating systems. He said, “Unsafe heating systems in classrooms are among the most important concerns.” Khezri made his remarks on the anniversary of a fire in the Enghelab elementary school, in the village of Shinabad, by the border town of Piranshahr.

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