This just in.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad drew the ire of many after he delivered his speech at Columbia University in the United States about a month ago. Mr. Ahmadinejad was quoted, through a translator, as saying that in Iran, there are not homosexuals and that Iran does not have that phenomenon.
Shortly after that appearance, Mr. Ahmadinejad has gained many haters and has actually become the subject of many parodies and satires, one of which was Saturday Night Live’s “I Ran,” which poked fun at him and the non-existence of homosexuality in Iran.
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Now, Reuters reports that the Iranian president’s media adviser has claimed that Mr. Ahmadinejad was mistranslated:
“What Ahmadinejad said was not a political answer. He said that, compared to American society, we don’t have many homosexuals,” presidential media adviser Mohammad Kalhor said.
We here at Bakla Ako, May Reklamo? cannot speak and understand Farsi, so we cannot validate if the president’s media adviser’s claim is truthful enough. One question bugs us though: If Mr. Ahmadinejad was mistranslated or misquoted, how come no one in the Farsi-speaking world came out in public and said that that was not what he said?
What say you?
