Iran most dangero untry for gay travelers - report - The Jesalem Post

Contents:

• Y, THERE ARE GAY PEOPLE IRAN
• IRAN'S PERSECUTN OF GAY MUNY REVEALED
• WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE GAY IRAN
• IRAN IS THE MOST DANGERO UNTRY FOR GAY TRAVELERS - REPORT
• GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• IRAN IS FORCG THOANDS OF GAY PEOPLE TO HAVE GENR REASSIGNMENT SURGERY AGAST THEIR WILL OR FACE EXECUTN

Y, THERE ARE GAY PEOPLE IRAN

Augt 26, 2021—In a new LGBTQ Fact Sheet published today by the Center for Human Rights Iran (CHRI), the extreme rights vlatns and adly vlence perpetrated by both the state and society agast the LGBTQ muny (lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer) Iran are highlighted a ncise, accsible format for rearchers, journalists, and policymakers. Government polici persecute both homosexuals and transgenr dividuals alike for their sexualy and genr intifitn, crimalizg same-sex relatns and genr reassignment Iran has mataed and pursued polici which nmn and harshly punish homosexualy, a practice wily, and appropriately, cricized as a human rights vlatn. Grenell’s sentiments were a ntuatn of the Tmp admistratn’s mpaign which lnched Febary of 2019 to crimnalize homosexualy var natns cludg Iran and lled on global anizatns like the UN and EU ntribute to the rights have been opposn to the Iranian Penal Co sce the 1930s when Parliament passed legislatn crimalizg such relatnships, and disapproval of this discrimatn has tensified over time.

IRAN'S PERSECUTN OF GAY MUNY REVEALED

Though personal and societal judgement agast transgenr people Iran is - as many untri - persistant and pervasive, the broar ia of beg transgenr is not nsired a vlatn of Iranian theocratic prcipl, and the ernment do not view such dividuals as they do homosexuals.

It is clear that the support iated by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomei s ago and the advantage of the clivy of the Persian language provi foundatnal stutnal acceptance of trans cizens Iran, but there are still steps that mt be taken to promote social approval and cultural rporatn of the non-bary Intersectn of Authorized Genr Surgery and Iran’s Homosexual TreatmentWh the approach to both homosexualy and transgenr cizens Iran tablished, a rrelatn between the two to light. Homosexuals phed towards this as a treatment are left wh few optns due to the legal support of hormone treatments, psychotherapy, and full transnal operatns; th, many are faced wh eher endurg the promoted medil approach or fleeg the untry to seek polil asylum a natn wh different legal thorizatn of genr reassignment reprents signifint progrs and support for the transgenr populatn, n also unfortunately be ed agast the already persecuted mographic of homosexuals Iran.

”Raisi's vis, part of his whirlwd tour of Ain untri such as Kenya and Zimbabwe, on the heels of Uganda passg a radil anti-LGBTQ+ law May that impos severe crimal penalti on gays, cludg pal Iranian print said “The Wt today is tryg to promote the ia of homosexualy and by promotg homosexualy they are tryg to end the generatn of human begs. (cred: WANA (WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY) VIA REUTERS)Iran's print says homosexualy is part of the pre-Islamic Era of IgnoranceThe Middle East Media Rearch Instute (MEMRI) first loted a televisn statement om Raisi that appeared on IRINN TV (Iran) on September 1, 2022, which he said the morn Jahiliyyah, the "very ugly and spible" practice of homosexualy, is ed to pict natns as wrote that Jahiliyyah is an Islamic term ed to refer to the “Era of Ignorance” that preced said on the TV program "Today's morn Jahiliyah [pre-Islamic 'Era of Ignorance'] is the same old Jahiliyah, but wh var forms of ‘ism. The Hengaw Organizatn for Human Rights reported that they were acced of promotg homosexualy, promotg Christiany and munitg wh media opposed to the Islamic 's judiciary later nfirmed the sentenc, but said they were nnected to human traffickg and not activism.

WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE GAY IRAN

It ced her as sayg that she was forcibly disappeared for 53 days, durg which an IRGC agent allegedly subjected her to "tense terrogatns acpanied by verbal abe" and "threatened to execute or otherwise harm her and take away the ctody of her two young children" January, Seddiqi Hamedani was brought before a prosecutor Urmia, the largt cy Wt Azerbaijan, and told that she was acced of "spreadg rptn on Earth", cludg through promotg homosexualy, munitg wh hostile media and promotg Christiany, acrdg to group said the first two accatns stemmed om her public fence of LGBT rights on social media and her appearance a May 2021 BBC documentary about ab that LGBT people were sufferg Iraq's semi-tonomo Kurdistan Regn, where she had been Iranian law, same-sex sexual nduct is a crimal offence, wh punishments rangg om floggg to the ath penalty. Unr the current circumstanc, Iranian youth, whether gay or straight, face many different obstacl, some of which have to do wh the regime (social rtrictns and iologil and polil prsure or the enomic suatn), and some to do wh public culture (a lack of acceptance of different liftyl and closed, tradnal thkg). There are those like [Islamic philosopher Abdolkarim] Soroh, who haven’t yet thought about homosexualy; there are those like the [progrsive theologian-cleric Mohsen] Kadivar who, if we nsir him an tellectual, support Islamic punishment agast homosexualy, and others like Akbar Ganji, Ram Jahanbegloo, Arash Naraghi, and others who fend the rights of homosexuals.

Discrimatn between the active and the passive partners, opposg transsexuals, misogyny, ternalized homophobia, a tradnal and biased view towards two people’s relatnship, lack of sufficient emotnal matury, and over-emotnalism are some of the thgs that n more or ls be seen among homosexuals. The liftyl of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people Iran are prehensively and systematilly nied by the Islamic regime, which expos them to horrific punishment, bullyg and risk of suici, a study has first tailed report on Iran's LGBT muny has found that s members live unr social and state reprsn, wh some beg persecuted, forced to exile or even sentenced to study was nducted by Small Media, a non-prof group based London. Parents have forced their homosexual children to have sex-change operatns, lol psychologists and psychiatrists who still em homosexualy as a mental illns have prcribed also exists wh the regime wh officials often nfg nsensual terurse wh s when an executn volvg sodomy charg is reported, 's difficult to fd out whether the nvicts were engaged nsensual sex or whether 's been a rape of the ntradictns surroundg LGBT life Iran, is that homosexuals are granted ary exemptn on the basis that they are mentally ill which will prevent them om dog official report acknowledg that crimalisatn of homosexualy would not necsarily mean an end to LGBT discrimatn.

Male to female transsexual, 26 years old, om Lortan In my life I've tsted very few people, pecially when to my sexual inty, and those whom I've tsted have generally been homosexual too … In orr to tst people, I need transparency and honty more than I need time. Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (ath penalty as punishment)Censorship✖ Other punishmentChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned. And while their experienc are reprentative for some of Iran's homosexuals, they are hugely different om those of the people who choose to stay the untry, or don't have the opportuny to om lower class and ral areas, where stigmatizatn is often most severe, rarely have the abily to move out of the hoe before marriage, let alone leave the untry.

IRAN IS THE MOST DANGERO UNTRY FOR GAY TRAVELERS - REPORT

"The Iranian thori ually turn a bld eye to the gay muny's pas, but much like the telligence servic the former Soviet Unn, Iranian telligence is believed to pile large fil on many cizens, which they n e to build a legal se agast people who might be ught engagg polil activi. Seven months later, they rented an apartment wtern Tehran; they both still live at home and when Naeem here, he tells his parents he is gog out of town wh challenge of fdg a steady partner weighs heavily on Iranian gays; many speak of prsn, lonels and paranoia as almost permanent mental stat.

GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

While the new centrist ernment unr Print Hassan Rouhani matas a siar rea as s precsor, foreign-based media outlets like BBC Persian, Rad Zaman and Voice of Ameri e non-rogatory language about homosexuals, and is slowly tricklg down to reformist outlets si the untry, and to young Iranians, says spe s often venomo rhetoric, the Iranian regime silently accepts that gays do exist, and tak a few pragmatic steps to acunt for that Quran, the foundatn of Iranian law, explicly bans homosexualy.

The fance webse Insir Monkey listed the Islamic Republic of Iran as the most dangero untry for gay travelers followg the regime’s executn of a man last year based on an anti-gay September 13 article said that Iran topped “the list of the 15 most dangero untri for gay travelers, wh the ath penalty imposed for such acts. ”Acrdg to a 2008 Brish WikiLeaks ble examed by The Jesalem Post, Iran’s cleril regime has executed between 4, 000 and 6, 000 gays and lbians sce the untry’s Islamic revolutn Post first reported 2019 that Iran's regime publicly hanged a man for vlatg the untry's Islamic Sharia anti-gay law.

IRAN IS FORCG THOANDS OF GAY PEOPLE TO HAVE GENR REASSIGNMENT SURGERY AGAST THEIR WILL OR FACE EXECUTN

Ali Fazeli Monfared, a 20-year-old gay Iranian man, was allegedly killed an “honor killg” by some of his male fay members after they found out he was gay, acrdg to an LGBTQ rights group Iran and Monfared, who was known as Alireza by iends and fay, lived a cy southwt Iran. He had applied for an exemptn om pulsory ary service so he uld leave the untry and move to Turkey to live wh his close iend, Aghil Bayat, acrdg to 6Rang, the Iranian Lbian and Transgenr homosexual nduct is crimalized Iran, part of the ary exemptn law allows gay and transgenr people to receive a medil exemptn om service for their inty. If Fazeli Monfared’s alleged killers had ught him havg sex wh a man, then they might receive lser punishments for his is one of an timated 11 untri where same-sex sexual acts are punishable by ath, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, and one of almost 70 untri where is crimalized, acrdg to Human Rights Watch, an ternatnal human rights group based New York.

"The are moral prcipl regardg the behavr of people general, ” he said at the time, acrdg to German broadster Dtsche are no statistics or rerds of the number of anti-LGBTQ “honor killgs” — which are perpetrated by relativ who feel the LGBTQ person has brought “dishonor” to the fay — that happen Iran or other untri that crimalize homosexualy, Tara Sepehri Far, who vtigat human rights ab Iran and Kuwa for Human Rights Watch, told NBC said Fazeli Monfared’s se highlights the importance of the role of the fay LGBTQ people’s liv when the state crimaliz who they are.