Iran’s stringent anti-homosexuality laws have led to well-deserved criticism from human rights groups, but the US ambassador’s decision to focus on the case of the hanging of a kidnapper and rapist of minors who also happened to be gay has raised eyebrows.
US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell has issued a sweeping condemnation of Iran, penning an op-ed for Germany’s Bild newspaper in which he argued that Iran’s recent public execution of a 31-year-old gay man should be condemned by “good people everywhere.”
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