A shocking new report reveals that hundreds of people in Iran were poisoned during the first round of presidential elections.

According to Etemad Daily, on election day residents of Gilan flooded hospitals and medical centers presenting symptoms including nausea, headaches, and stomach pain. Within just two days, the number of affected individuals skyrocketed from 130 to 400.

“My family and I visited the hospital twice with symptoms of stomach pain, diarrhoea, weakness, and loss of appetite. The cause of the poisoning is drinking water, but we don’t know why the main cause is not being announced,” one patient told the India based news network.

While the president of Gilan Medical University attributed the poisonings to water contamination, Iran’s Water and Wastewater Department vehemently denied any connection between the poisoning and the public water supply.

However, Amnesty International questions whether these poisonings were unintentional, pointing to a history of poisoning under Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s watch. In May, 333 people were poisoned in Badreh city due to contaminated tap water. Just months earlier an entire village fell ill when sewage entered the drinking water supply.

Perhaps the most chilling poisoning incident came after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in 2022 who was arrested for breaking Iran’s hijab law. After thousands flocked Iran’s streets to protest Amini’s death, an estimated 7,000 schoolgirls across 28 of Iran’s 31 provinces were poisoned.

No arrests have been made in connection with the school poisonings, which activists suggest are intentional considering the regime’s history of quashing dissent by any means necessary.