A popular Iranian singer now faces execution after being outed.
Mohsen Lorestani, a Kurdish-Iranian musician, has been accused of homosexual conduct after allegedly flirting with a man in a private chat conversation on social media. Authorities have charged Lorestani with “corruption of the Earth,” which carries the death penalty.
Iran, a fundamentalist Muslim state, remains one of the most antagonistic nations on Earth when it comes to queer people. In recent years, the execution of two men made international headlines. Police arrested Hasan Afshar, age 17, for homosexual conduct in 2014. Authorities held him in captivity for two years before a public hanging. Alireza Tajiki, only 15, was also executed in 2016, after confessing to being gay under torture.
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“Our society has moral principles,” said Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. “And we live according to these principles … These are moral principles concerning the behavior of people in general. And that means that the law is respected and the law is obeyed.”
Under the Obama Administration, the United States offered political asylum to LGBTQ people fleeing laws like those found in Iran, or in neighboring nations like Saudi Arabia. Donald Trump reversed those protections and Vice President Mike Pence has resisted efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in the international community.
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So freaking sad mimics the case of about 10 years ago two teenage boys were a little too open about their relationship. They were arrested and charged with same thing, tortured until they confessed to their “crimes” both were sentenced to 200 lashes. The human body can only endure 20 or 30 lashes because the flesh is ripped off a person’s back. they were then sent to heal in filthy cells deprived of medical care, suffering hideous infections and then the process is repeated over and over. After almost two years as they were approaching the last round of agonizing torture suddenly new charges were lodged about them “raping another boy” they were sentenced to death by hanging. You can still find pictures of these poor kids in a cage being transported to their death it was the most heart-wrenching thing you ever see knowing in minutes they would be murdered for simply being Gay they were then placed on a flatbed truck with a nooses put around their neck and then the truck slowly drove away so they suffered the slow torturous agonizing death rather than just having a platform pulled out underneath them so that they would die immediately of a broken neck
one can only hope there is a special dark corner of Hell where those involved in these disgusting acts suffer unbelievable agony for eternity..
Vince
They only threw in the rape charge because the case was getting world wide attention.
Ironically girls are forced into marriages with older men in Iran and everyone thinks it’s perfectly normal.
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Vince. I think it was because otherwise they would have had to release and acknowledge they were actually Gay kids living in that vial miserable abhorrent country. Search for “Gay teens hung in Iran” seeing those kids terrified in that cage is so gut-wrenching
BStewart27
The picture of those two young men still haunts me. They could be anyone. All who stand by are murderers, IMO.
Vince
Yes. Iran still executes men for being gay. Religion is a sickness and fundamentalism is a very dangerous insanity in itself.
Hussain-TheCanadian
I personally dont understand this hatred of gay men, what psychological deficiency a person with so much power has, that they need to unleash unspeakable amount of pain, torture, and misery on another human being, who isnt even hurting anyone.
Will the right wing, economy dropping, politically inept, freedom stealing, and conservative old men dominating government arrest heterosexual men for flirting with women on the streets, work, and online?
Hey Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, remember when you said you “where not aware of” your security services raping, torturing, and murdering activist men and women during the massive 2009 green protests?
Remember when you said “Islam is built on freedom of speech” then weeks later passed laws outlawing criticism of your person?
Remember when you said “torture is barbaric, antihuman, anti-Islamic, and anti-iranian” yet your security services, baseej forces, along with the Etila’at federal police are notorious for torturing prisoners and your political rivals?
You sir, along with a huge chunk of your government, are nothing more than lying, hypocritical, disgusting, elitist murderers who is no different than the Saudi barbarians who you like to attack.
I forgot to add, go fck yourself.
Kangol2
Absolutely horrible. I hope and pray he can get out of Iran before the court hands down a sentence. Most of the neighboring countries are bad and pretty homophobic, but Iran is particularly horrible when it comes to gay people targeted by the government. Also, as the article notes, let’s not forget that another one of the worst countries in terms of death for gay people is Saudi Arabia. There always seems to be radio silence from the US government when it comes to this horrific Saudi policy. All the arms sales in the world should not let Saudi Arabia get off the hook for this.
Cam
Extreme religion is all about hatred and bigotry. I hope this poor guy manages to get out of there.
Aires the Ram
..And Obama gave these bastards 400 billion dollars in cash on a shrink-wrapped pallet just before he left office. Wonderful. And you people think our current administration is against gay people?
Think again.
Every gay/lesbian American who is reading this should be aware, and look around themselves, and realize how VERY GOOD they have it in the United States of America.
Kangol2
Obama did NOT give them $400 billion (seriously, are you insane???) dollars on a pallet. I mean, do you just pull these lies out of your @ss or what? And do you know why they got that money ($400 million), which was theirs, and was also part of the nuclear deal? I mean, look it up!
But also, Drumpf is openly palling around with and taking money from Saudi Arabia! Saudi Arabia executes gay people. As of today. Why is there this endless silence about Saudi Arabia’s brutal treatment of gay people? And let’s not forget, it’s also the same country that supplied the overwhelming majority of 9/11 terrorists!
OzJosh
Trump has not only done business with Saudi and Middle-Eastern moguls for years, he’s in debt to them to the tune of several billion. They loaned him money after none of the US or European banks would. This is well documented, and is bound to become increasingly relevant as we proceed to impeachment.
Smith David
@Aires the Ram…I am very grateful and proud to be American. I’ll take the constant black and white race wars here in America over living in that country any day. Jesus! I don’t wish to offend anyone, but the middle east will never evolve it’s thinking. I hope this singer finds refuge. I’m scared for him.
catbells
You have religious sects in America that are very anti-gay and homophobic teachings as in any other manmade religions
Michael007
Thank you for your opinion on Iran and its political system. Islam is an ideology, not a religion. It’s a sick culture. In my dreams, I would somehow get a message to all homo men in that country to get the hell to the mountains and away from big cities, and then I would bomb Tehran and other ‘nests’ of these scum back into the 7th century from which they came.
Michael007
That post (above) was meant for Hussain-TheCanadian. During the posting, I got a message that I needed to do it again, but it put it in the wrong spot. Sorry.
Michael007
I’m scared for him too, Smith David. Our problems here are NOTHING as compared to that backward country. And just to think . . . Iran is actually a more successful country than some of the others like Pakistan. Just imagine how primitive they must be!!!
hansniemeijer
Sick country. Religions hate human rights, even kill in the name of their “god”.
catbells
Tribalism
catbells
All manmade religions are barbaric and tribal
bowlingbutch
Is there ANYTHING that can be done to help this man? The hatred we experience in the US is nothing like the hatred in these countries.