Iran’s Khamenei says homosexuality example of West’s immorality

Iranian Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks throughout a gathering by way of video convention with folks from East Azarbaijan in Tehran, Iran, February 17, 2022. Workplace of the Iranian Supreme Chief/WANA (West Asia Information Company)/Handout by way of REUTERS

DUBAI, March 1 (Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei described homosexuality as a part of the “ethical deprivation” widespread in Western civilisation, throughout a televised speech on Tuesday.

“There’s extreme ethical deprivation on the earth immediately resembling homosexuality and issues that one can’t carry oneself to even speak about. Some have rightly known as Western civilisation a brand new age of ignorance,” Khamenei mentioned.

Western rights teams have usually criticised Iran, the place gay acts amongst males will be punished by the loss of life penalty.

Tehran has dismissed the criticism as baseless and on account of a lack of information of its Islamic legal guidelines.

“The identical ethical vices of the age of ignorance (in pre-Islamic Arabia) exist immediately within the so-called civilised Western world in an organised and extra widespread approach. Life in Western civilisation is predicated on greed, and cash is the idea of all Western values,” Khamenei mentioned.

Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Enhancing by Edmund Blair

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