a very decent chap apparently !

[NickFitz]

I'm sorry but I find being gay a very weak reason to be granted asylum.

I think being hanged was the reason, not being gay...

[shelby68]

Well at least it's a genuine case for asylum unlike some others.
Very little chance of him being an Islamic fundamentalist is there?

That's true, his 73 virgins or whatever it is are supposed to get would be a bit underutilised

[BA to the Stars]

I think being hanged was the reason, not being gay...

I thought he was told he would be well hung

[Churchill]

I thought he was told he would be well hung

Nope, he said all gay men in Iran are "well hung"!

[lambrini_socialist]

You can't say that. Lambrini Socialist will say you are Adolf Hitler.

nah. Robert Kilroy-Silk, maybe.

[lambrini_socialist]

So all you have to do to get asylum is tell them you are gay....

Call me cynical but isn't this an easy way to get british citizenship? We don't like it in Iran lets go over to good old blighty and say we are gay. We will get a house and benefits and be out of this tuliphole for good...

I'm sorry but I find being gay a very weak reason to be granted asylum.

btw, do you even know anything about Iran? your mouth is flapping open and closed, noises are coming out, it sort of sounds like an opinion...but...but...NO MORE ASYLUMS, GAYS IS RONG is all i'm really hearing.

i think it's a safe bet that most Iranians actually DO like it in Iran, or at least they did until the Islamist minority hijacked what was supposed to be a peoples' revolution. fear of being executed because the government disapproves of what this guy does with his willy is almost certainly the real motivation for claiming asylum, not getting a free bloody house on some piss-streaked council estate in a cold wet country half way around the world from his home, family, friends, career etc. Iran is a sophisticated country filled with ordinary people, that just happens to be ruled by authoritarian morons who make it literally impossible for some people to go on living there. why on earth can't you, as an Englishman living under New Labour, relate to that?