Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that homosexuality is "against the human spirit," the ILNA news agency reported... Addressing officials in the city of Yazd on Thursday, he said: "They asked me (at Columbia) why you crack down on homosexuals in Iran? I answered we don't have so many homosexuals in Iran because we believe this act is against the human spirit and humanity."
Gay sex is banned and punishable by death under Iran's sharia-based law. Transvestites are also arrested in the country, where observing the Islamic dress code for women is mandatory.
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