We dont have any gays in iran
There are no Homosexuals in Iran
A Highlight on Immature Iranian Gays that Flee Their Country
Speaking at Columbia University in 2007, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proclaimed: “In Iran, we execute not have homosexuals appreciate in your country.” While most Western nations now officially accept homosexuality, homosexuality is still punishable by death in Iran. In Denizli, a town in Turkey, hundreds of gay Iranians fleeing their country are stuck in a transit zone, hoping to be welcomed into a host country someday where they can start afresh.
Iran sites omit leader’s homosexuality remark
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comment that there are no gays in Iran was cut out of official Farsi transcripts of his appearance at Columbia University Monday.
Not all media deleted the comments: State-run television left them in a videotaped recording of the speech broadcast Tuesday. The complete transcript was published in the English-language version of the state news agency report and some newspapers ran the comments Wednesday.
But homosexuality, which remains highly sensitive in Iran, is rarely discussed in Farsi-language official media. Lgbtq+ sex is prohibited, and in some circumstances, people convicted of it can be sentenced to death.
In the question-and-answer portion of Ahmadinejad's appearance, the moderator asked why Iran executes gays.
Ahmadinejad eventually responded: "In Iran, we don't possess homosexuals, like in your country. We don't acquire that in our land. In Iran, we undertake not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have it."
On the Farsi-language versions of the president's official Web site and the country's official news agency, IRNA, these comments are cut out or slightly revised to delete
Speaking at Columbia University on September 24, 2007, Iranian president at the moment Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proclaimed: “In Iran, we do not possess homosexuals like in your country. ” While most Western nations now officially accept homosexuality and some even lgbtq+ marriage, homosexuality is still punishable by death in Iran. Homosexuals are not allowed to inhabit out their sexuality there. Their only options are either to choose transsexuality, which is tolerated by law but considered pathological, or to flee. In Denizli, a town in Turkey, hundreds of gay Iranians are stuck in a transit zone, their lives on hold, hoping against hope to be welcomed into a host country someday where they can start afresh and come out of the closet. Position in this express of limbo, where anonymity is the best protection, my photographs explore the sensitive concepts of identity and gender and seek to restore to each of these men the face their country stole from them. My protest is not to portray them as victims of political oppression and harrowing memories, but to focus on their current predicament and their hopes for a better, freer life in which to express their love and sexuality openly, beyond the reac
No gays in Iran: Ahmadinejad
Iran's firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told an audience at a top US university that there were no gays in Iran as he skirted around a question about the treatment of homosexuals in his country.
At the start of a hugely controversial go to to the United States, the alleged Holocaust denier who has been accused of backing terrorism tried to reach out to a sceptical US insist and public.
"In Iran we don't have homosexuals enjoy in your country," Mr Ahmadinejad said to howls and boos among the Columbia University audience.
"In Iran we do not possess this phenomenon, I don't know who has told you that we contain it," he said.
Mr Ahmadinejad was challenged during his appearance on Amnesty International figures that suggested that 200 people had been executed in Iran so far this year, among them homosexuals.
He used his appearance at Columbia and a video link at the National Press Club in Washington to utter that talk of war against his country was "propaganda" and reiterated that it had every right to pursue a harmonious nuclear program.
Forced to defend his invitation to Mr Ahmadinejad, Columbia president Le
Ahmadinejad: No Gays, No Oppression of Women in Iran
Sept. 24, 2007 — -- When not dodging direct questions, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was defiant in his answers at a forum Monday at Columbia University, maintaining that his country seeks nuclear power only for peaceful purposes, that continued research is necessary to decide the facts of the Holocaust, that Iran is not supporting insurgents in Iraq and that women in his country are treated equally.
Despite fears from some that the controversial leader would go unchallenged in his comments, Columbia President Lee Bollinger quickly took the Iranian president to task in his opening statements, calling him "a petty and cruel dictator" and pointing to a number of well-documented instances in which the Iranian regime has executed children, oppressed women and imprisoned and tortured homosexuals, academics and journalists.
"I disbelieve you will contain the intellectual courage to answer these questions," Bollinger said ahead of the Ahmadinejad's comments. "I do expect you to exhibit a fanatical mind-set."
Bollinger called Ahmadinejad's previous statements questioning the former partner