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Photo: courtesy of Outrage.org.uk
HERE IS A MESSAGE FROM IRAN
Why not bring your unwanted children here ?
If we suspect they might have gay tendencies we'll string em up and kill em nice and slow.x We promise to capture those once in a lifetime moments on film. We'll even employ a sound recordist - see photo below.

How many camcorders did you spot ?
Would you like to see some sickening film showing the beatings and executions of degenerate boys ? You can always ask our Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran or our London Embassy to forward such requests. Just email matbuat@mfa.gov.ir or
info@iran-embassy.com.
Or check out the photos below of two lads we strung up earlier
The youngest, Mahmoud Asgari (left), was either 15 or 16 at the time of his "crime" and the oldest, Ayaz Marhoni (right), either 16 or 17.
EXECUTION PHOTOS
Courtesy of the Islamic Republic
Note: A lorry acted as the gallows but provided insufficient height for a quick death. Death probably took several painful minutes.




Ignore all the fuss stirred up by the evil foreign media - or to quote from one of our eminent Members of Parliament
"“Instead of paying tribute to the action of the judiciary, the media are mentioning the age of the hanged criminals and creating a commotion that harms the interests of the state”
Ali Asgari - Majlis deputy for Mashad (photo below).

WHY WERE THE BOYS EXECUTED ?
Once it was realised there would be an international outcry over the executions, the ultra conservative newspaper Quds started to assert that the two boys were guilty of the rape of a 13 year old. The Quds newspaper is government funded and owned by a fundamentalist shiite organization Astan Quds Razavi Source: AQR. It gleefully reported on the cheering crowds when an alleged "serial sodomist" was executed in Mashad in December 2004 Source: Holycrime.com and in July this year reported that a leading dissident journalist on hunger strike was in excellent health. It quoted an official as saying "Akbar Ganji is regularly consuming nutritious food and proteins, and according to the physicians, his general health is completely on form” Source: IranFocus.com. Back in 1998 it was also the Quds newspaper that had implied that two National Geographic reporters were military spies Source: Globalsecurity.org..
Photo: Quds alleged the boys were rapists - the same day it claimed hunger striker Akbar Ganji (pictured) was in excellent health.

There are also other good reasons to be sceptical of Iranian press reports. In 2004 when a 16 year old girl was hanged for "acts incompatible with chastity", regime censored newspapers insisted she was 22 until the father produced a copy of his dead daughter's birth certificate Sourced from activistchat.com. Moreover, in the case of the two boys, the first reports by the ISNA (Iranian Students News Agency) and the National Council for Resistance of Iran didn't mention rape at all.
It is also strange that the boys were quoted in the Iranian press as stating that they did not know their "crime" was a capital offence. That makes some sense if they were youths engaging in consensual gay sex but no sense if they were refering to violent rape in a country where almost all serious crimes merit the death penalty. But even assuming, in the case of the boys' execution, the allegations were correctly reported, it is quite likely that they were backed by forced confessions.
No international human rights groups trust the credibility of confessions made in Iran and
In December 2004 Human Rights Watch issued a press release on Iran documenting "an extensive pattern of forced confessions." see article here.
A DEEPLY CONSERVATIVE BUT DIVIDED CITY WHERE ISLAMISTS GLORIFIED A PROSTITUTE-KILLER AND YOUTH DEMANDED FREEDOM
The execution of the two boys took place at 10am on Tuesday 19th July in Edalat (Justice) Square in the city of Mashad situated in north eastern Iran, 909km from the capital Tehran. Mashad is arguably the country's holiest city. Meaning literally "place of martydom" it is where the eighth grandson of the prophet Mohammad, Emam Reza, was murdered in 817 and has been a place of pilgrimage ever since.
It's a city where a mass-murderer, Saeed Hanaei who lured prostitutes to his flat , became a folk-hero among Islamic militants. He and his lawyer cited an ambiguous provision in Iranian and Islamic law that refers to sinners as a "waste of blood", arguing that Hanaei deserved lenient treatment. This argument gained considerable sympathy in the media. "Who is to be judged?" wrote the conservative newspaper Jomhuri Islami in 2001, "Those who look to eradicate the sickness or those who stand at the root of the corruption?"
Photo: Saeed Hanaei - by killing prostitutes in Mashad he became a folk hero.

But in recent years the city has witnessed an increasing divide between conservative and more liberal elements of its' population. Prior to the executions it even had it's own gay bulletin board !!!!!................which, not suprisingly, became quieter during the subsequent days view the gay Mashad board.
MASHAD HAS A HISTORY OF HOMOPHOBIC REPRESSION.
"In June (2001?) an Iranian newspaper reported that a young man in Mashad had been given 20 lashes for 'wounding public moral sentiments' by plucking his eyebrows and wearing eyeshadow. In March (2001?) an Iranian newspaper reported that six persons had been sentenced in Mashad to 18 months in jail and 228 lashes for goading passers-by to dance in the street".
For more information consult the U.N. Convention Against Torture document C.30.D.190.2001.
Just 48 hours before the execution young anti-government rioters clashed with police throughout the city. Some 150 government vehicles were reportedly destroyed. More info here. Whether coincidence of not the next 48 hours also proved to be the busiest on the city's only known gay bulletin board - Then came the executions in Justice Square and Mashad had to face the reality of the new hardline regime in Tehran. The message that the authorities intended to send with these executions was clear - no more tolerance here in Mashad !
Photo: Asgari being led to the gallows. A new low in Iranian barbarity.

THE TWO BOYS WERE FROM IRAN'S ARAB MINORITY.
Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni were from the the indigenous Ahwazi Arab population of Khuzestan. An Ahwazi group on the internet claims that
"By targetting Arabs, the Iranian regime is clearly using the social taboo of homosexuality and the heinous crime of child rape to justify the social marginalisation ( and political repression ) of the Ahwazi Arab population."
The boys' families came from the western area of Iran close to Iraq which was ethnically cleansed during the Iran-Iraq war. Their families had been forced to quit the area and settle in Mashad, in north western Iran.
The xenophobic sentiments of religious conservatives in Mashad had been incensed in May 2005 when reports surfaced of immigrant foreign girls, many of them Iraqi Arabs, marrying locals. According to The Iran Daily this had triggered "sociocultural disorder" in the city.
“Preliminary studies indicate that local girls mostly marry nationals from Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Persian Gulf littoral states,“ a commentator declared, adding such marriages were conducted illegally.
“These marriages bear no fruits except innocent children who are left with their mothers after the foreign partners abandon their families and flee overseas.“
SO PERHAPS THE REAL MESSAGE THE MASHAD AUTHORITIES INTENDED TO SEND BY THESE EXECUTIONS WAS - NO MORE TOLERANCE OF SOCIAL FREEDOMS, ESPECIALLY NOT FOR ARABS AND GAYS.
IRAN'S BRUTAL RECORD ON GAY RIGHTS
According to Le Monde, Iran had ten men stoned to death for "gay crimes" in 1999, 16 men in 2000 and 12 men in 2001. The Iranian Governemnt has executed over 4,000 gay men since 1979.
A MESSAGE TO THE MURDERING MULLAHS

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WE SAY BOYCOTT MASHAD CARPETS
There is little doubt that the fundamentalist shiite organization Astan Quds Razavi in Mashad backs the city's medieval and barbaric stand on executing men, including children, for gay crimes. This same organization receives millions of pounds in profits from the export of Mashad carpets to the United Kingdom and other countries around the world. This money not only keeps the clerics extremely wealthy, it keeps them in power and Iran's gay community and women if fear. So we say let's boycott all Iranian carpets, but especially those from Mashad - such as the one illustrated below.

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