Iran V America in one image.

Oh yeah, you'll never find a better country than Iran. It's the perfect place for anyone... unless you're:

gay, a woman, Christian, Jewish, liberal, Caucasian, Iraqi, bisexual, a free-thinker, an intellectual, an atheist, an agnostic, Israeli, American, one who speaks one's mind, lesbian, a teenager who wants to have sex, anyone who wants to have sex before/outside of marriage, a single mother, non-Arab, non-Muslim, communist, socialist, democratic, feminist...

Basically anyone who isn't a male Muslim; and even then, these guys don't have all that going for them.

For me, Iran's most heinous crime (amongst a huge litany of heinous crimes) was executing two teenage boys in 2005. These poor boys were beaten, tortured and humiliated before being hanged from a beam in a public street. They were forced to stand in the back of a pickup truck with nooses around their necks. The truck was then driven away from under them and they slowly strangled to death. The two boys were aged 16 and 18 when they were murdered by the state. They were much younger when their alleged offence occured.

What was their offence? They were gay. They were murdered by Iran for being gay. That is what a fúcked up country that place is.

The Iranians claimed the two boys (Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni) had raped a 13 year old boy, but there was literally no evidence to support this, and they were simply killed for being two young, gay men. They did nothing wrong, yet were put to death by this backward, ignorant country.

The Iranians have also put to death a 13 year old boy (Makwan Moloudzadeh) for allegedly raping another boy, yet every witness retracted their statements. Once again, Iran put to death a young gay person. This was most positively a child. He was only 13 years old, and he was murdered for alleged offences, but in reality his only offence was being gay.

Yeah, Iran is such a wholesome, innocent place. If it was up to me, I'd have sent the US Marines in years ago. The USA might not be perfect (far from it), but it's much better than any of these fundamentalist, fascist, Sharia-Law indoctrinated hell-holes where there is liberty and justice for none.

Iran's reach is limited, but you could add Lebanon & Syria & Iraq to the "Iran" column.

Given the choice, I know what country I'd rather live in.