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• TWO GAY MEN ARE HANGED IRAN SIX YEARS AFTER THEY WERE JAILED ON 'SODOMY' CHARG
• IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
• 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
• IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• WHY IS THE GAY PRINTIAL CANDIDATE SILENT ABOUT IRAN HANGG GAYS?
• IRAN'S TOP DIPLOMAT SAYS HIS UNTRY EXECUT GAY PEOPLE BEE OF 'MORAL PRCIPL'
• IRAN EXECUT GAY TEENAGER VLATN OF TERNATNAL LAW
• EXECUTN OF TWO GAY TEENS IRAN SPURS NTROVERSY
• IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

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

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. “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.

“Iran is not only the most dangero threat to Israel’s secury, is also a champn the state murr of actual or perceived homosexuals, ” said Volker Beck, a German Party Green Party polician and a lecturer at the Center for Studi Relig Scienc (CERES) at the Ruhr Universy Bochum. ”Beck played a key role brgg about marriage equaly Germany for gays and lbians. ” The statement about cizens of Kazeroon uld not be penntly 2016, The Jesalem Post reported Iran’s regime had executed a gay adolcent that year – the first nfirmed executn of someone nvicted as a juvenile the Islamic Afshar, 19, was hanged Arak Prison Iran’s Markazi Provce on July 18, 2016, after he was nvicted of “forced male-to-male anal terurse” early 2011, Iran’s regime executed three Iranian men after beg found guilty of charg related to M.

IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG

Hochre, a spokman for the Hirschfeld-Eddy-Stiftung Foundatn, which fights to advance the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people, told the Post:“Iran is one of the worst stat for the persecutn of LGBTI. The state publicly and regularly boasts of the executn of gay men.

Two gay men Iran, where homosexualy is illegal, have been executed after spendg six years on ath row. The two men were sentenced to ath for 'forced sexual terurse between two men' and died the northwtern cy of MaraghehIran is nsired one of the most reprsive plac the world for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr men's inti were nfirmed a report by the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) on add state-n outlets Iran had yet to announce the Vojoudi, who fled Iran and ped to Germany, told The Jesalem Post that the untry's prisons are 'full of people who have mted no crime'. LGBTQ+ rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell also told the publitn the executn follows 'a long-standg regime policy of the state-sanctned murr of gay men, often on disputed charg after unfair trials that have been nmned by Amnty Internatnal and Human Rights Watch' add: 'The ternatnal muny mt impose Magnsky sanctns on the regime officials, judg and prison staff who thorized the executns - and on those rponsible for the many other human rights s of abe Iran'.

Two men Iran, where homosexualy is illegal, have been executed after spendg six years on ath rowHe said: 'The Ayatollah regime Iran jt executed two gay men for the crime of sodomy Iran.

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

' Last May Alireza Fazeli Monfared, 20, who intified as gay and non-bary, was abducted by several male relativ and murred Ahvaz, Khuztan provce Iran. 'Unr Iranian law, sodomy, rape, adultery, armed robbery and murr are among crim that n lead to the ath year a UN report found that Iran 'gay, bisexual and transgenr children were subjected to electric shocks and the admistratn of hormon and strong psychoactive meditns', Pk News reported. Alireza Fazeli Monfared, 20, (pictured) was allegedly taken by the three male fay members and murredIn Febary 2021, an Iranian cleric Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian claimed that the Covid-19 vacce turns people gay, on msagg platform Telegram, to almost 210, 000 followers.

IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

They have bee homosexuals. 'Speakg to the publitn at the time Mr Tatchell said the claims were 'monizg' both the vacce and the gay muny.

IRAN’S cel regime barbarilly execut the most people the world per pa for crim which clu beg gay and drkg alhol. Over the years others have been killed for beg gay, mtg adultery, sex outsi marriage and drkg alhol.

Protters light ndl durg a monstratn Manila, Philipp, to nmn the executn of two teenagers Iran bee of their homosexualy, an Augt 5, 2005 file photo. Dubai, Uned Arab Emirat — Iran has executed two gay men who were nvicted on charg of sodomy and spent six years on ath row, a rights group reported. Homosexualy is illegal Iran, which is nsired one of the most reprsive plac the world for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people.

WHY IS THE GAY PRINTIAL CANDIDATE SILENT ABOUT IRAN HANGG GAYS?

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 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.

IRAN'S TOP DIPLOMAT SAYS HIS UNTRY EXECUT GAY PEOPLE BEE OF 'MORAL PRCIPL'

The executn of two gay men, while may not be surprisg, certaly don’t make that “engagement” any ’s operatn also is seen as sential to managg the chaos Iraq and the Islamic State.

IRAN EXECUT GAY TEENAGER VLATN OF TERNATNAL LAW

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 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.

EXECUTN OF TWO GAY TEENS IRAN SPURS NTROVERSY

Ileana Ros-Lehten, Chris Smh, and Ed Royce, who ed Iran’s human rights rerd as evince agast the Obama admistratn’s policy of 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 phenomenon of vokg LGBT equaly as a jtifitn for Amerin foreign polici, which theorist Jasbir Puar lls “homonatnalism, ” has been around for several years.

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 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.

IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

DUBAI, Uned Arab Emirat — Iran has executed two gay men who were nvicted on charg of sodomy and spent six years on ath row, a rights group reported. Homosexualy is illegal Iran, nsired one of the most reprsive plac the world for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people. Iran bears sole rponsibily for the aths of those 176 nocents, jt as Iran bears sole rponsibily for the public hangg of gays, which Mayor Pete and his fellow Democrats seem to have no problem wh.