From the Independent - March 6, 2008
The Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, did not bat an eyelid when he asserted at New York's Columbia university that there were no homosexuals in Iran.
He was not joking either. He had been asked about the execution of gays in Iran. "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country," he said.
The statement drew howls and boos from his audience.
One human rights expert who watched the debate last September described the words as a sick joke, because homosexuality carries the death penalty in Iran.
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