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General Mohammad Javad Larijani allegedly made these remarks in Tehran during a visit by German Tom Koenigs, who chairs the human rights committee in Germany’s parliament, according to a report by Radio Free Europe.
Mohammad Javad Larijani
“The West says that the marriage of homosexuals should be allowed under the human rights charter, however, we think it is sexual immorality and a disease,” he was quoted as stating to his German counterpart, in Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency.
This statement is consistent with the harsh sentences and treatment of LGBT people in Iran that enforces and enacts the death penalty for same-sex acts.
In 2007, during a visit to Columbia University, USA, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad responded to reports of human rights abuses of LGBT people that “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country,” he said. “In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t know who has told you we have that.”
Speaking with LGBTQ Nation, Gorji Marzban, Chairperson of the Oriental Queer Organisation (ORQOA), stated:
“The Iranian High Council for Human Rights is a governmental body and part of the Ministry of Justice in Iran. So in this context, Larijani is trying to separate LGBT rights as being part and parcel of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
His offensive views clearly reflect the homophobic attitudes of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
“At any rate, it seems that Mr. Larijani accepts for the first time officially that homosexuals exist as a ‘disease,’” added Marzban.
“Here he contradicts not only the official logic of the president but also the point for punishment by law — sickness cannot be immoral or punishable by death. Yet Iranian LGBT people exist everywhere, we are not sick or sinners nor is the issue of our Human rights one of disease,” he said.
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What the fuck ever.
Fuck that shit!!!
And the only cure is MORE COWBELL?
christ its kinda pot calling the kettle black innit?
How ludicrous
LOOK AT THE LIL LUMP OF MUTTON FAT SHOOTING ITS MOUTH OFF
Fucking archaic thinking will get you NOWHERE. Get with the times already!
Homophobia Is a disease a disease that needs to be cure.. not LGBT people
I didn’t know calling people a disease makes you a human right official.
Thank God not to live in a crazy country like this. America isnt perfect but we are way above that kind of sick thinking.
Are you sure you don’t mean Rick Santorum’s Human Right’s Official? Just so we all understand it, the Iranian theocracy uses the same language as Republican presidential candidates.
Please I’m from Los Angeles and I have seen more Iranian gay men then i can count on 100 peoples hands, On top of it they are usually on the DL so they are a large culprit in spreading HIV to their partners and wives.
Hate is a disease. And so is hanging people because they are found gay. Why don”t he clear out hospitals over there with a noose then?
Jackass
Diseased?! Oh my goodness, no more diseased than straights. Being gay doesn’t make you any different from anyone else other than relationship preference. HUMANS have sex, and they all have the same chance of catching something. It’s the choice to practice safe sex or abstinence that causes the outcome. It seems that these days “homophobes” are looking for any dramatic detail to convince the world that gays are worse people that the very ones judging. GET OVER IT. HUMANS LOVE AND SHARE LIVES TOGETHER. FOCUS ON SOMETHING THAT REALLY MATTERS AND AFFECTS PEOPLE!
It is a Western Disease that is why it dates even further back than but including ancient Greeks an Romans…. So the homophobic continue to show how unintelligent they are when opening their mouths on homosexuality. Maybe they should spend a little time reading up on history, and I am not talking the crap that makes it into the education system.
His thinking is diseased and very immoral… But i dont care what some ” Human Rights ” idiot says…
Do these people understand that they solely are the reason for hate crimes against the LGTB population? They teach people that being gay or lesbian is a crime and it should bear a penalty of death and then wonder why people are murdering our kind. Really grow up and accept that we are here and we deserve just as much respect as everyone else.
Sexual immorality: RAPE, INCEST, BESTIALITY, PEDOPHILIA and NECROPHILIA…Get it right people, THOSE things are immoral. LOVING the same gender? Come on! Get your heads out your booties and DO something for this world. Also, make sure you clean out those skeletons in YOUR closet, cuz history proves, the ones judging ALWAYS have something to show later; so stop talking about what you know NOTHING about:)
What a crock!
Interesting. I keep seeing how people are saying how useless Iranians are and how they’re unfit to develop nuclear technologies. So, they’re “Sand Monkeys”, we’re “Infidels” these people are “Faggots”, those people are “Breeders”, and the list goes on. I wonder how many centuries it’s going to take before the human race finally breeds racism and bigotry out of it’s mentality? Sad thing is, until the terms are stricken from the derogatory classification they are (and new ones will take their place, they always do), human nature will still be, to slap that classification of terms on those they currently have beef with. Sad thought…
I would rather be gay than a fat iranian…
No a country divided is a disease.
Welcome to the 14th century.
This entire statement just goes to show how hateful and extremely ignorant this man is….but the part about calling it a” western disease”…really??? Yea, cuz we all know homosexuality doesn’t exist on every corner of the globe. I guess he hasn’t heard of the thousands of gay Iranians and people from other countries that consider homosexuality to be a “crime against humanity”, that either hide who they are or spend their life running away and trying to get out of their country of origin in order to escape death.
He’s got the cancer called Hate!
Well if we are diseased, I like the one I have got and so does my girlfriend!
I’m not surprised really. That part of the world also puts women to death or in prison for their own rapes.
Thats really sad :(
THIS is their human rights official?!
prejudice & bigotry are diseases that CAN be cured. just remove the unsightly 10-20lb lump at the top of the shoulders &, WA LA, CURED!! :)
D:
I don’t live in Iran, so what that little mouth piece for his government’s propaganda machine says has no real direct effect on me. But heaven help our gay brethren living under one of the most oppressive theocracies on earth!
He obviously shouldn’t be in that position
I’m pretty happy being the way I am so he can fuck off
Do the words “iranian” and “human rights” really belong in the same sentence here? Maybe the people themselves have some idea of what human rights are and should be but the government??? Seriously????
quelle surpise…
Dear LBGT, I don’t know if you have noticed this, but whenever the news says anything about gay’s, they always show Pride Festivals where guys are in leather thongs and angel wings. Maybe, we as the gay community, should change our image. Ass less chaps really aren’t helping us move along, because it just helps fill the hatred and stereotypes that many of us are trying to overcome.
Who actually likes this? That man is SICK. just look at him.
yea …like who cares what he thinks
How would he know when he’s making love to a camel?
Dear LBGT, I don’t know if you have noticed this, but whenever the news says anything about gay’s, they always show Pride Festivals where guys are in leather thongs and angel wings. Maybe, we as the gay community, should change our image. Ass less chaps really aren’t helping us move along, because it just helps fill the hatred and stereotypes that many of us are trying to overcome.
Hate is the disease !
Islamis a disease you dumb mother fuckers created
Disgusting and immoral.
He would get along well with most Rep. Presidential canidtates
If we’re going to spout bullshit; Iranians are a disease and being one should be punishable by death. Sound fair? No? Didn’t think so.
well i for one am canceling my vacation to Tehran!!!!!!!
He needs to buy some new deodorant himself. Bit niffy.
Some human rights huh?
Last time, I checked I was very healthy! ;)
So basically he is only for rights if someone is Iranian, male and straight.. Maybe they should be appointing someone new for this job.
Anyone coming into contact with anyone that had anything to do with the murders of homosexuals in Iran should take any action possible to harm them. And if Iran keeps persecuting homosexuals, we should all attack heterosexual Iranian citizens in our countries. Start with embassy personnel.
What would an Iranian know about human rights anyway?
try to remember Iran has no issue and even subsidises GRS for Transsexuals and Intersexuals
Does that mean not infected with crist or bigotry?
sounds like a republican presidential candidate if you ask me
Iran, please stop being so republican. You know better than that. Now lets all stop being so dramatic about it as gays are everywhere…so get educated and stop embarrassing your country and your people. Now behave.
These are the same people who are trying NOW 70+ years later to get into space – and are STILL FAILING. We have 12 year olds here in the U.S. that can do better at a 8th grade science fair LMAOOOOOOOOOO
A news clipping from their own AL ARABIYA NEWS June 2011:
“Iran says it plans to send a monkey into space next month as part of its space program, potentially sparking fears from Western countries about the progress of Iran’s missile arsenal.” …”In August 2010 the country’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said that Iran planned to send a man into space by 2017.”
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/06/28/155176.html
(also click link above)
HAHAHAHA by 2017 we’ll probably have American space ships on Mars LMFAOOOOO!!! Yeah, so let’s really take these uneducated fools seriously when they say homosexuality doesn’t exist in their country because its a disease. Give me a break!!!! LOL
Bigots.
I say the troll should strap a bomb on himself, go out into the desert and blow himself up,that would save the earth some precious oxygen that moron is taking up. Then he could have all those virgins in their-so=called- heaven. Or just put him up against a wall and blow his brains out, sounds crude but thats what they would do to us.