Iran's President scrubs reference to gays in speech from site

[PageOneQ]

Source: PageOneQ.com

The official website of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has removed the portion of a transcript of his speech yesterday at Columbia University. In the scrubbed section, part of a question and answer period, Ahmadinejad said there are no homosexuals in Iran.

In a statement released by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission the organization noted that the comments had been removed from the Persian language version of the site, but left in the English transcription of the speech. Following an inquiry by PageOneQ made to the Iranian embassy, the entire question and answer period has been removed from the site.

Read more: http://pageoneq.com/news/2007/Irans_President_scrubs_reference_to_gays_in_speech_fr_0925.html

[Doctor_J]

1. I don't understand why * hates this guy so much when they're two peas in a pod

:shrug:

[ohio2007]

2. Freedom of the press marches on

I bet a few did catch the parts before they were 'purified' by the thought police

[Zandor]

3. Proud to send this to the Greatest Page

K & R