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• IRAN REPORTEDLY HANGS GAY MAN
• TWO GAY MEN ARE HANGED IRAN SIX YEARS AFTER THEY WERE JAILED ON 'SODOMY' CHARG
• GAY HANGG IRAN: ATROCI AND IMPERSONATNS
• IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
• IRAN EXECUT GAY TEENAGER VLATN OF TERNATNAL LAW
• IRAN’S NEW GAY EXECUTNSSELECTIVE HORRORCONSERVATIV MAY BE THE ON VOICG THE LOUST OUTRAGE AT THE HANGG OF TWO GAY IRANIAN MEN—BUT NOT BEE THEY’VE SUDNLY BEE SUPPORTERS OF LGBT HUMAN RIGHTS.JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 6:09PM EDT / PUBLISHED AUG. 12, 2014 5:55AM EDT  DEHDARI/MEHR NEWS AGENCYTHE TRAGIC HANGG OF TWO “SODOM” IRAN MAY SEEM, THEORY, LIKE AN OBV E FOR U.S. NCERN AND U.S. ACTN. (SIGN A PETN! DEMAND HUMAN RIGHTS!) YET PRACTICE, THOSE MOST ATTENTIVE TO LGBT NCERNS MAY BE THE LEAST EAGER TO PICK THIS FIGHT.AS NA STROCHLIC REPORTED THE PAG SUNDAY, THE TWO MEN, ABDULLAH GHAVAMI CHAHZANJI AND SALMAN GHANBARI CHAHZANJIRI, WERE HANGED SOUTHERN IRAN ON AUGT 6, POSSIBLY FOR NSENSUAL SODOMY. THEIR ATHS ARE PART OF A WAVE OF EXECUTNS IRAN, WH MORE THAN 400 THE FIRST HALF OF 2014 ALONE, ACRDG TO THE NGO IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS.WE DO NOT KNOW FOR CERTA THAT THEY WERE EXECUTED FOR BEG GAY—ONE IRANIAN SOURCE SAYS THEY WERE, ANOTHER IS VAGUE ABOUT THEIR “CRIM” BUT LLS THEM “IMMORAL VILLAS.” IF THE MEN WERE HANGED FOR NSENSUAL HOMOSEXUALY, HOWEVER, THIS ULD BE ANOTHER LGBT HEADACHE FOR THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN, WHICH HAS BEEN TRYG TO WALK A TIGHTROPE BETWEEN LGBT HUMAN RIGHTS ON ONE END AND TERNATNAL POLICS ON THE OTHER.DPE IRAN’S STATE ANTI-SEMISM, THE RECENT ARRT OF U.S. JOURNALISTS, AND THE NTUED OPPRSN OF WOMEN, THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN HAS BEEN ATTEMPTG A RAPPROCHEMENT WH THE IRANIAN REGIME. FENDG OFF IRAN HAWKS CONGRS AND THE D.C. PUNDOCRACY, THE ADMISTRATN HAS ARGUED FOR A POLICY OF NSTCTIVE ENGAGEMENT, PURSUG DIPLOMACY OVER ARY ACTN TO HALT IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM. THE EXECUTN OF TWO GAY MEN, WHILE MAY NOT BE SURPRISG, CERTALY DON’T MAKE THAT “ENGAGEMENT” ANY EASIER. IRAN’S OPERATN ALSO IS SEEN AS SENTIAL TO MANAGG THE CHAOS IRAQ AND THE ISLAMIC STATE. WH U.S. AIRSTRIK AGAST THE SUNNI ANTS, ON-OFF (NOW FELY OFF) SUPPORT OF IRAQ’S SHIE (EX-)PRIME MISTER NOURI AL-MALIKI, AND THE POSSIBLE DISTEGRATN OF IRAQ, THIS OPERATN—OR AT LEAST NOT OVERT OPPOSN—IS SURELY OF MORE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE THAN THE LATT HUMAN RIGHTS ABE. CONSERVATIV WHO FAVOR A HAWKISH FOREIGN POLICY WILL CLAIM OTHERWISE, OF URSE. IN THE TOPSY-TURVY WORLD THAT IS TERNATNAL LGBT POLICS, IRAN’S RERD ON HOMOSEXUALY IS MORE A NSERVATIVE E THAN A LIBERAL ONE. JT A FEW WEEKS AGO, THE HOE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMTEE HELD A HEARG ON HUMAN RIGHTS IRAN AT WHICH PROGRSIV SUCH AS HOSSE ALIZAH OF THE INTERNATNAL GAY & LBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSN TTIFIED ABOUT IRAN’S HIO RERD OF CRIMALIZATN AND PERSECUTN.BUT AT THAT SAME HEARG, SOME OF THE MOST VOL FENS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ME OM ROBERT GEE—THE TELLECTUAL FATHER OF THE RIGHT-WG “RELIG LIBERTY” MOVEMENT AND, DOMTILLY AT LEAST, A ZEALO OPPONENT OF LGBT EQUALY—AND REPUBLIN REPS. ILEANA ROS-LEHTEN, CHRIS SMH, AND ED ROYCE, WHO ED IRAN’S HUMAN RIGHTS RERD AS EVINCE AGAST THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN’S POLICY OF ENGAGEMENT.TO BE SURE, NOT ALLOWG GAYS TO MARRY IS HARDLY THE SAME AS PUTTG THEM TO ATH. AND DEMOCRATS AS WELL AS REPUBLINS ROUTELY CRICIZE IRAN’S REPRSN OF GAYS AND LBIANS. BUT THE FACT REMAS THAT WHEN IRAN PERSECUT GAY PEOPLE, NSERVATIV THE UNED STAT SUDNLY BEE ENAMORED OF GAY RIGHTS—AND BASH THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN FOR NOT DOG ENOUGH TO FEND THEM. TH THE ADMISTRATN IS H OM ALL SIS—AT A MOMENT WHICH IS TRYG TO PURSUE S DICEY DIPLOMATIC AGENDA.THE PHENOMENON OF VOKG LGBT EQUALY AS A JTIFITN FOR AMERIN FOREIGN POLICI, WHICH THEORIST JASBIR PUAR LLS “HOMONATNALISM,” HAS BEEN AROUND FOR SEVERAL YEARS. (PUAR MIGHT PREFER THE TERM “IMPERIALISM.”) EVEN AS NSERVATIV FIGHT LGBT EQUALY AT HOME, PUAR SAYS, THEY CHAMPN OVERSEAS—AS LONG AS SERV THEIR TERTS TO DO SO.MOREOVER, SAYS PUAR, AMERINS EQUENTLY IMPOSE THEIR OWN NCEPTNS OF SEXUAL AND GENR INTY ONTO OTHER CULTUR, STOMPG OUT DIGENO WAYS OF THKG ABOUT SEXUALY AND GENR, AND PERPETUATG THE MYTH THAT SEXUAL DIVERSY IS A WTERN VENTN. IRONILLY, BY MANDG TOLERANCE OF “HOMOSEXUALY,” AMERINS N HIB THE TOLERANCE OF FORMS OF SEXUALY AND GENR INTY THAT ARE LONG-STANDG TRADNS NON-WTERN CULTURE.FOR ALL THE REASONS, DON’T EXPECT THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN, OR THE LGBT MOVEMENT, TO RAISE A HUE AND CRY OVER THIS LATT TRAVTY OF JTICE. AS HORRIFYG AS THIS TRAGEDY IS, WE MIGHT ONLY BE ABLE TO MAKE WORSE. JAY MICHAELSON
• EXECUTN OF TWO GAY TEENS IRAN SPURS NTROVERSY

IRAN REPORTEDLY HANGS GAY MAN

BERLIN – The Islamic Republic's mpaign to execute gay Iranians is believed to have rulted the public hangg this month of a man intified only as “CH. ”Acrdg to an onle report last week Europe’s largt gay news service, Pk News, Iran’s judiciary imposed the ath penalty on Ch.

TWO GAY MEN ARE HANGED IRAN SIX YEARS AFTER THEY WERE JAILED ON 'SODOMY' CHARG

”Iran has ramped up over the years s persecutn of the untry’s Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Brish Guardian earlier this month translated remarks om Grand Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, who said, “Even animals...

GAY HANGG IRAN: ATROCI AND IMPERSONATNS

Dogs and pigs don’t engage this disgtg act [homosexualy], but yet they [Wtern policians] pass laws favor of them their parliaments. ”Stuart Appelbm, a leadg US gay activist and head of a large tra unn, wrote to The Jesalem Post by email on Saturday: “The fact that Iran promot and tolerat this kd of actn remov self om the muny of civilized natns.

The entire world – gay and straight – should be appalled. ”Yoav Sivan, an Israeli journalist who served on the boards of Aguda – the Israeli Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Associatn and the Jesalem Open Hoe and the Israeli board of the World Jewish Congrs, wrote to the Post on Saturday: “Unfortunately, we have bee ured to hearg such homophobic exprsns g om top Iranians. We should note that the exprsn is not jt homophobic but jt as much anti-Wtern by scribg tolerance toward a mory as a shortg of Wtern polics.

IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG

One homophobic directed primarily at his dience at home, and one anti- Wtern that should be heard primarily among the Wt. ”Gay sex is punishable by ath unr Iranian ”so long as both the active and passive partners are mature, of sound md, and have acted of ee will.

IRAN EXECUT GAY TEENAGER VLATN OF TERNATNAL LAW

“After all they stone women, they hang gays – this is a backward, dark medieval regime that impos s tyranny on s own people.

IRAN’S NEW GAY EXECUTNSSELECTIVE HORRORCONSERVATIV MAY BE THE ON VOICG THE LOUST OUTRAGE AT THE HANGG OF TWO GAY IRANIAN MEN—BUT NOT BEE THEY’VE SUDNLY BEE SUPPORTERS OF LGBT HUMAN RIGHTS.JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 6:09PM EDT / PUBLISHED AUG. 12, 2014 5:55AM EDT  DEHDARI/MEHR NEWS AGENCYTHE TRAGIC HANGG OF TWO “SODOM” IRAN MAY SEEM, THEORY, LIKE AN OBV E FOR U.S. NCERN AND U.S. ACTN. (SIGN A PETN! DEMAND HUMAN RIGHTS!) YET PRACTICE, THOSE MOST ATTENTIVE TO LGBT NCERNS MAY BE THE LEAST EAGER TO PICK THIS FIGHT.AS NA STROCHLIC REPORTED THE PAG SUNDAY, THE TWO MEN, ABDULLAH GHAVAMI CHAHZANJI AND SALMAN GHANBARI CHAHZANJIRI, WERE HANGED SOUTHERN IRAN ON AUGT 6, POSSIBLY FOR NSENSUAL SODOMY. THEIR ATHS ARE PART OF A WAVE OF EXECUTNS IRAN, WH MORE THAN 400 THE FIRST HALF OF 2014 ALONE, ACRDG TO THE NGO IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS.WE DO NOT KNOW FOR CERTA THAT THEY WERE EXECUTED FOR BEG GAY—ONE IRANIAN SOURCE SAYS THEY WERE, ANOTHER IS VAGUE ABOUT THEIR “CRIM” BUT LLS THEM “IMMORAL VILLAS.” IF THE MEN WERE HANGED FOR NSENSUAL HOMOSEXUALY, HOWEVER, THIS ULD BE ANOTHER LGBT HEADACHE FOR THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN, WHICH HAS BEEN TRYG TO WALK A TIGHTROPE BETWEEN LGBT HUMAN RIGHTS ON ONE END AND TERNATNAL POLICS ON THE OTHER.DPE IRAN’S STATE ANTI-SEMISM, THE RECENT ARRT OF U.S. JOURNALISTS, AND THE NTUED OPPRSN OF WOMEN, THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN HAS BEEN ATTEMPTG A RAPPROCHEMENT WH THE IRANIAN REGIME. FENDG OFF IRAN HAWKS CONGRS AND THE D.C. PUNDOCRACY, THE ADMISTRATN HAS ARGUED FOR A POLICY OF NSTCTIVE ENGAGEMENT, PURSUG DIPLOMACY OVER ARY ACTN TO HALT IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM. THE EXECUTN OF TWO GAY MEN, WHILE MAY NOT BE SURPRISG, CERTALY DON’T MAKE THAT “ENGAGEMENT” ANY EASIER. IRAN’S OPERATN ALSO IS SEEN AS SENTIAL TO MANAGG THE CHAOS IRAQ AND THE ISLAMIC STATE. WH U.S. AIRSTRIK AGAST THE SUNNI ANTS, ON-OFF (NOW FELY OFF) SUPPORT OF IRAQ’S SHIE (EX-)PRIME MISTER NOURI AL-MALIKI, AND THE POSSIBLE DISTEGRATN OF IRAQ, THIS OPERATN—OR AT LEAST NOT OVERT OPPOSN—IS SURELY OF MORE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE THAN THE LATT HUMAN RIGHTS ABE. CONSERVATIV WHO FAVOR A HAWKISH FOREIGN POLICY WILL CLAIM OTHERWISE, OF URSE. IN THE TOPSY-TURVY WORLD THAT IS TERNATNAL LGBT POLICS, IRAN’S RERD ON HOMOSEXUALY IS MORE A NSERVATIVE E THAN A LIBERAL ONE. JT A FEW WEEKS AGO, THE HOE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMTEE HELD A HEARG ON HUMAN RIGHTS IRAN AT WHICH PROGRSIV SUCH AS HOSSE ALIZAH OF THE INTERNATNAL GAY & LBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSN TTIFIED ABOUT IRAN’S HIO RERD OF CRIMALIZATN AND PERSECUTN.BUT AT THAT SAME HEARG, SOME OF THE MOST VOL FENS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ME OM ROBERT GEE—THE TELLECTUAL FATHER OF THE RIGHT-WG “RELIG LIBERTY” MOVEMENT AND, DOMTILLY AT LEAST, A ZEALO OPPONENT OF LGBT EQUALY—AND REPUBLIN REPS. ILEANA ROS-LEHTEN, CHRIS SMH, AND ED ROYCE, WHO ED IRAN’S HUMAN RIGHTS RERD AS EVINCE AGAST THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN’S POLICY OF ENGAGEMENT.TO BE SURE, NOT ALLOWG GAYS TO MARRY IS HARDLY THE SAME AS PUTTG THEM TO ATH. AND DEMOCRATS AS WELL AS REPUBLINS ROUTELY CRICIZE IRAN’S REPRSN OF GAYS AND LBIANS. BUT THE FACT REMAS THAT WHEN IRAN PERSECUT GAY PEOPLE, NSERVATIV THE UNED STAT SUDNLY BEE ENAMORED OF GAY RIGHTS—AND BASH THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN FOR NOT DOG ENOUGH TO FEND THEM. TH THE ADMISTRATN IS H OM ALL SIS—AT A MOMENT WHICH IS TRYG TO PURSUE S DICEY DIPLOMATIC AGENDA.THE PHENOMENON OF VOKG LGBT EQUALY AS A JTIFITN FOR AMERIN FOREIGN POLICI, WHICH THEORIST JASBIR PUAR LLS “HOMONATNALISM,” HAS BEEN AROUND FOR SEVERAL YEARS. (PUAR MIGHT PREFER THE TERM “IMPERIALISM.”) EVEN AS NSERVATIV FIGHT LGBT EQUALY AT HOME, PUAR SAYS, THEY CHAMPN OVERSEAS—AS LONG AS SERV THEIR TERTS TO DO SO.MOREOVER, SAYS PUAR, AMERINS EQUENTLY IMPOSE THEIR OWN NCEPTNS OF SEXUAL AND GENR INTY ONTO OTHER CULTUR, STOMPG OUT DIGENO WAYS OF THKG ABOUT SEXUALY AND GENR, AND PERPETUATG THE MYTH THAT SEXUAL DIVERSY IS A WTERN VENTN. IRONILLY, BY MANDG TOLERANCE OF “HOMOSEXUALY,” AMERINS N HIB THE TOLERANCE OF FORMS OF SEXUALY AND GENR INTY THAT ARE LONG-STANDG TRADNS NON-WTERN CULTURE.FOR ALL THE REASONS, DON’T EXPECT THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN, OR THE LGBT MOVEMENT, TO RAISE A HUE AND CRY OVER THIS LATT TRAVTY OF JTICE. AS HORRIFYG AS THIS TRAGEDY IS, WE MIGHT ONLY BE ABLE TO MAKE WORSE. JAY MICHAELSON

Shoots them on the siwalk, go to their hom, culls the Inter, tak people away at night, ” he rights activists, gay journalists, and LGBT publitns cricized Human Rights Watch for failg to foc on the rise of persecutn of gays the Islamic onle publitn Queerty wrote an article tled, “Disgraced Human Rights Watch Director Stt Long Qus... ”After Long’s parture, HRW issued a rpected study 2010 on the persecutn faced by Iran’s LGBT has praised anti-Israel advot such as Sarah Schulman, who claimed that Israel is mountg a “pkwashg” mpaign to promot s gay rights rerd to blunt cricism of the Jewish state.

The Islamic Republic of Iran publicly hanged a 31-year-old Iranian man after he was found guilty of charg related to vlatns of Iran’s anti-gay laws, acrdg to the state-ntrolled Iranian Stunts’ News unintified man was hanged on January 10 the southwtern cy of Kazeroon based on crimal vlatns of “lavat-e be onf” – sexual terurse between two men, as well as kidnappg charg, acrdg to ISNA. Iran’s radil sharia law system prcrib the ath penalty for gay sex.

EXECUTN OF TWO GAY TEENS IRAN SPURS NTROVERSY

“Next time Foreign Mister Zarif speaks Washgton, the host and dience should ask him why his regime is one of the top executner of gays the world. ”Acrdg to a 2008 Brish WikiLeaks dispatch, Iran’s mullah regime executed “between 4, 000 and 6, 000 gays and lbians” sce the Islamic Revolutn 1979.