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HEADLINES Dave Navarro`s Porn Debut Ahmadinejad demands unity from Iran's parliament Video Excerpts Columbia`s president, Lee Bollinger, set the combative tone in his introduction of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying `you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator.` (Sept. 25) * Threats fail to deter Myanmar protests* Bush to announce new sanctions* Iranian president to address UN* Lebanese presidential vote delayed* Japan`s new PM to form cabinet* Basra blast targets police station* Thai monarchy not an academic questionDarcy (Minneapolis) The president of Iran is in New York this week and will address the United Nations on Tuesday. However, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is already raising controversy, Ben Tracy reports (2:44).

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GAY rights in Iran. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, LGBT and human rights groups have cited a lack of tolerance toward the gay community, in part due to institutionalized assertions that no branch of the community exists in Iran. Officially, homosexuality remains a crime under the country's theocratic Islamic government. In fact, all types of sexual activity outside a heterosexual marriage remain forbidden, although it is debated to what extent these laws are enforced. On 24 September 2007, while speaking at Columbia University, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, in answer to the question "Iranian women are now denied basic human rights and your government has imposed draconian punishments including execution on Iranian citizens who are homosexuals. Why are you doing those things?", "We don't have homosexuals, like in your country. I don't know who told you that." A poster at the Iranian embassy in Paris protesting the execution of Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni Application of laws There are various reports of the death penalty being applied for homosexual conduct, and as this sentence has often been carried out against dissidents, it may be a tool to silence political dissent as much as to oppress homosexuals. According to The Boroumand Foundation [9], there are records of at least 107 executions with charges related to homosexuality between 1979 and 1990.[10] According to Amnesty International, at least 5 people convicted of "homosexual tendencies", three men and two women, were executed in January 1990, as a result of the Iranian government's policy of calling for the execution of those who practice homosexuality.[11] In April 1992, Dr. Ali Mozafarian, a Sunni Muslim leader in the Fars province (Southern Iran), was executed in Shiraz after being convicted on charges of espionage, adultery, and sodomy. His videotaped confession was broadcast on television in Shiraz and in the streets of Kazerun and Lar. On March 14, 1994, dissident writer Ali Akbar Saidi Sirjani was charged with offences ranging from espionage to homosexual improprieties. GAY + IRAN = GAYRAN On November, 12 1995, by the verdict of the eighth judicial branch of Hamadan and the confirmation of the Supreme Court of Iran, Mehdi Barazandeh, otherwise known as Safa Ali Shah Hamadani, was condemned to death. The judicial authorities announced that Barazandeh's crimes were repeated acts of adultery and "the obscene act of sodomy." The court's decree was carried out by stoning Barazandeh. Barazandeh belonged to the Khaksarieh Sect of Dervishes. (Islamic Republic Newspaper - November 14th 1995 + reported in Homan's magazine June, 10 1996). The execution of Ali Sharifi was reported in Hamadan by the Washington Blade in 1998. Sharifi was hanged for having gay sex, adultery, drinking alcohol, and dealing drugs. In 2005, two Iranian teenagers, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, were both sentenced to death for what some human rights groups claimed was "consensual gay sex" while Iranian authorities asserted that the two were part of a criminal gang that raped a thirteen-year-old boy. Again, the government claims were disputed by international organizations and progressive domestic groups. Based on information available at the time, Paula Ettelbrick, executive director of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, said "It was not a gay case," taking issue with the Human Rights Campaign?s statement that was quick to condemn the execution as anti-gay. "We would welcome HRC?s involvement in demanding that our government speak out on human rights violations. It was just the wrong case,? she said. At the discretion of the Iranian court, fines, prison sentences, and public lashings may be used instead of a public execution. As the Islamic law covers all aspects of Iranian society and culture, no public discussion of homosexuality is permitted, no gay rights organizations are allowed to exist, and no political party that supports gay rights will have their candidates on the election ballot. No Gays in Iran? Click picture to "Enlarge!" Here's your chance to tell The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad just exactly what stinks about his Fore-end Policy. Looking at the globes from space, it's easy to see why there's so much conflict in the Middle(east). Looks like the hole area, could be wiped off the map. See Also: www.PresidentofIran.com www.PresidentAhmadinejad.com www.GayRan.com

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