Sometimes the obvious is so obvious that people forget to state it. So let me observe one small footnote among recent obvious things.

Earlier this month, Donald Trump killed the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and most of the senior leadership of the Islamic Revolutionary government in Iran.

There are many things to be said against the Ayatollah and his friends. Since 1979 they have repressed the population of Iran and hurtled one of the great civilisations backwards by a millennium. From the start of the revolution they have murdered their domestic opponents by the thousands. They have shot students in the head when they came out on to the streets in protest. They have massacred, raped and tortured prisoners. They have exported terror around the world. They have sent agents to kill American politicians on US soil and death squads to the UK, and they have pronounced a death sentence on a British novelist for the ‘crime’ of writing a novel.

The unwritten rule has been there for decades: the fight for gay equality halts at the borders of Islam

The unwritten rule has been there for decades: the fight for gay equality halts at the borders of Islam

Here is an obvious thing. As well as repressing women, the regime is not exactly progressive when it comes to the issue of the gays. In fact this lack of acceptance, tolerance or ‘kindness’ extends to publicly hanging people by the neck from cranes for the ‘crime’ of being homosexual.

I mention this not to single out gays as especial victims of Tehran’s revolutionary regime, but rather to notice........

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