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Iran defends execution of gay people
The US on Wednesday accused Iran of violating fundamental human rights after Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif endorsed the execution of gay people.
Zarif defended his country's draconian policies at a joint press conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas in Tehran on Monday.
A reporter from German tabloid Bild asked: "Why are homosexuals executed in Iran because of their sexual orientation?"
He responded: "Our society has moral principles. 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," after railing against human rights violations by the US and Israel.
Maas, who was in Iran to negotiate the continuation of the nuclear deal, largely ignored the issue at the time.
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Shadi Amin, an Iranian writer and activist who now lives in Germany, told DW-Farsi that she was "outraged" by the Iranian foreign minister's comments.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Iran has executed two gay men who were convicted on charges of sodomy and spent six years on death row, a rights group reported. Homosexuality is illegal in Iran, which is considered one of the most repressive places in the world for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
According to a report on Sunday by the Human Rights Activists News Agency, the two men were identified as Mehrdad Karimpour and Farid Mohammadi.
They were sentenced to death for "forced sexual intercourse between two men" and hanged in a prison in the northwestern city of Maragheh, some miles from the capital, Tehran.
Last July, two other men were executed on the same charges in Maragheh, the group said. It added that last year, Iran executed people, including four convicted of crimes committed as children. Also in , Iran sentenced 85 people to death.
Last October, the U.N.'s independent investigator on human rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman told the U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee that Iran continues to implemen
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If any of you become a Disney Imagineer, please create a LGBT bar! The slurp around the world event during gay day orlando was a great time. You couldn&#;t even find a place to be upright inside any of the bars at EPCOT.
My fav bars in WDW:
1. Mizner&#;s Lounge - quiet, comfy and right off the monorail in the GF.
2. Planet Hollywood - fun, great food and inside DTD.
3. Dawa Bar - outdoor, very casual, adj beer and drinks, smoking section and it&#;s in Africa of the animal kingdom.
They had one, it was called Mannequins Dance Palace. Unfortunately the fool who closed it is now headed over to ABD to wreck havoc.