'No homosexuals in Iran': Ahmadinejad

Agence France-Presse

Published: Monday September 24, 2007





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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad skirted a question about the treatment of homosexuals in Iran on Monday, saying in a speech at a top US university that there were no gays in Iran.

"In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country," Ahmadinejad said to howls and boos among the Columbia University audience.

"In Iran we do not have this phenomenon, I don't know who has told you that we have it," he said.

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.

"Don't you have capital punishment in the United States? You do too. In Iran there is capital punishment," he said.

Another RAW STORY article on Ahmadinejad's speech can be read at this link.

PageOneQ has a video clip of Ahmadinejad's remarks on homosexuals that can be viewed at this link.



