Thread by @ScolaidhDays

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We’ve seen the hypocrisy of trans activism over the years to the point where not much is shocking anymore.

But one thing I never thought I’d see is the amount of radical ‘LGBT+’ activists declaring their undying support for Iran.

Here’s a thread on what they’re supporting.

Homosexuality is illegal in Iran. The punishment for this flogging and execution.

However ‘gender-affirming care’ is completely legal, and in fact it has been subsidised by the Iranian government since 1987.
Not only are trans identified women ‘recognised’ as women in Iran, they are even allowed to compete in women’s sports.

Iran also performs the second most ‘gender-affrmiming’ surgeries worldwide, trailing just behind Thailand.

It is difficult to find accurate reports due to the Iranian government and judiciary system suppressing reports on trials related to LGB executions along with censorship, digital surveillance and limited international access.

As seen in other Middle Eastern countries, in Iran the criminalisation of gays and lesbians often takes place under different pretexts such as terrorism, sexual assault, morality crimes and so on.

However, I’ve done my best to gather as much information as possible.

Starting off with Iran’s Islamic revolution, it is estimated that between 1979-1990 at least 146 executions took place for crimes relating to homosexuality.

In one of these cases, Nasser Farhati and four others were executed on sodomy charges.
Below you can read how the Iranian government views homosexuals as ‘immoral’, ‘filthy’ and having a ‘chronic disease’.

A report by Amnesty International revealed that in January 1990, three men and two women were executed for the crime of ‘homosexual tendencies’.

In contrast, Iran has a history of ‘boy play’ aka ‘bacha bazi’ which involves older men exploiting adolescent boys for sexual and entertainment purposes.
While common (and illegal) in Afghanistan and Pakistan, reports of this abuse are rare in Iran yet there are no specific laws outlawing it.

Likewise there are few cases of this act being punished. This is likely due to child exploitation largely being hidden due to corruption.

Since the Islamic Revolution, it is estimated that the Iranian government has executed up to 6,000 gays and lesbians.

This number originates from a 2008 wikileak of a confidential UK government webpage.

The case mentioned in the leak involves an Iranian national seeking asylum in the UK after his partner was convicted of sodomy and executed.

On November 13th 2005, two gay men Mokhtar and Ali, were executed by public hanging in Gorgan.

Their punishment was for the crime of consensual sex between two men, known as ‘lavat’.

This was one of the first cases in Iran to execute gay men for consensual sex without framing it as coercion, assault or otherwise.

As I’ve stated previously, often times homosexuals are smeared with more severe crimes such as rape and coercion to avoid unwanted international attention.

That likely seems to be the case with two teenagers who were hanged on July 19th 2005, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni.

Below is a picture of the boys along with a report from stop child executions.

I’ll let you decide for yourself but it’s worth noting that no evidence of rape was given during their trial, including no forensics, witness statements etc, the boys were not given defence or witness rights and the state-controlled media changed the details of the case stating that they were adults at the time.

Despite child executions being illegal in Iran, the same source lists roughly 100 other cases of children being executed.
Another example is of two trafficked underage boys being executed on ‘drug smuggling’ charges.

In 2022 two women, Zahra Seddiqi Hamedani and Elham Choubdar were given an execution sentence for crimes of ‘corruption on Earth’ due to their pro-LGBT activism.

The Iranian media smeared them by claiming they were involved in human trafficking.

During their trial they were both held in solitary confinement, tortured to the point of coerced confession and were denied the right to a defence.

After two years of imprisonment and torture, the two women were let go due to international outrage and groups such as Amnesty and Human Dignity Trust fighting for their release.

The abuse of women in Iran is nothing new and unfortunately not surprising anymore.

Here is just a few recent cases involving morality police:

Armita Geravand was only 17 years old when she was assaulted by morality police on the metro. She fell into a coma and later died.
To date, one has been charged for her murder.

Roya Heshmati received a flogging sentence for the crime of posting an unveiled photo of herself on social media.
Zeynab Kazempour underwent the same punishment for the crime of removing her Hijab during a work meeting.

Arezou Badri was left paralysed after being shot by morality police who were enforcing hijab laws.
She was later forced into a coerced confession for her ‘crimes’.

The worst part of this is that none of these stories are unique or even rare for that matter.
The Iranian government frequently assaults, whips and tortures women for no crime whatsoever.

My last point on Iran is its child marriage epidemic.

The first picture shows that over a million underage girls have been married off since 2014, the second shows that girls as young as 9 can be legally married with either the courts or a guardians consent.

Between March-June 2021, Iran saw its record high number for child brides.
Over 9,750 young girls were wed during this time period, the vast majority being married off to men in their 20s and up.

If you can’t see the issue here and I need to explain to you why this is wrong, you should be locked up.

So after researching all of this, it’s no wonder to me why men like Johnathon support the Iranian government.

After all, he’s championing one of the most homophobic, woman-hating, child-abusing cults of our time.

Women being shot and beaten to death, gay men being executed and little girls as young as 9 being forced into marriages means less to him than his ‘right’ to his delusion.

Trans activists like Johnathon tell us time and time again how much they hate women, children and gays.
Yet for some reason, the message isn’t loud enough for most.

Disclaimers:

1. I promise no bunnies were harmed in the creation of this thread.

2. Please tag or share this thread with any ‘LGBTQIA+’ activists you see championing the Iranian regime.

3. Namaste 🙏🏻