TEHRAN – An Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian, known for his rageagainst western medicine, has posted that interacting with people whoreceive the Covid-19 vaccine will makes you homosexual.
Posting on social media platform Telegram on Tuesday, he wrote “Don’t gonear those who have had the COVID vaccine. They have become homosexuals.”
As per Iranian law, it is currently illegal to be gay in Iran and theviolation of the rules can lead to the death penalty.
Earlier, Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian , also known as the ‘father of IslamicMedicine’ burned a copy of the Harrison’s Manual of Medicine arguing thatmedicine made such books ‘irrelevant’.
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On the other hand, Iran has struggled to cope with the worst Covidoutbreak, with 1.5 million cases and a death toll nearing 59,000.
Supreme Leader Khamenei has banned US and British vaccines and the countryhas just begun using the Russian Sputnik V vaccine.
