George Galloway: Propagandist for Iranian regime

[TheLouisXXI]

Galloway should be forced to be Gay in Iran and see what will happen to him

[yeovil50]

I have met many Iranians in the last year and can totally say that what Galloway reports is an absolute LIE..people are excuted for sexual orientation and not for sexual crimes on minors!. Woman are raped in prison..FACT!...minorities are persecuted.FACT...as the lies that Galloway comes out with on a regular bases..then I just find it absolutely disgusting and he obviously has no human feeling for the people who suffer in Iran on a daily bases..The man is a total sham..

[1981WishBone]

Don't trust cats

[dylans8]

I think mr G is motivated by money . Hes also appears to have supported the Iranian Presidents election campaign by telling the president so on his tv show .he then denied doing so on the andrew neil show

[HilariousHadith]

Heck. Deportation from Iran would be a reward...not a punishment. Galloway you nazi-faggot fuckin' admadinahijab. 

[TheSasss1]

George Galloway = biggest scumbag on earth

[AK47fromPARIAH]

It is a central part of Sharia that gay people are executed and there have been many executions of gay people in Iran. George Galloway is a propagandist for the Islamic Regime and Press TV. He is a right wing fascist subordinate who needs crushed.

[IranMarzban]

very interesting guy this Galloway.. he shook hands with Uday and praised Saddam who used chemical weapons against Iranian civilians , but now he praises Iran... and now he is allowed ito work for propaganda (O)press tv???by who??

[sp45ih]

I dont like the Iranian government, but Galloway is right that the Western news exxaggerates their evil.

[CookiesForAll]

pinetree ur are so frikin stupid lol , what does his wife has to do with anything . hes a MP who supports one side , and many people will try to make him look bad , but he will just keep crushing them as he always has...

[pinetree1973]

The MP George Galloway was divorced by his second wife today because of his unreasonable behaviour.

Dr Amineh Abu-Zayyad, 42, a Palestinian scientist, was granted a "quickie" decree nisi by a London county court judge.

She filed a complaint about the 54-year-old Respect MP's friendships with other women, claiming his behaviour left her depressed

[Aliof]

@pinetree1973:

You.........are a prick.

[GallowayWatch]

Galloway supported the Soviet invasion of Afganistan which killed 2 million afgans.

He Supports China's Occupation of Tibet.

he supported the Syrian Occupation of Lebanon.

he justified Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

he was a close personal friend of Tariq Aziz (Saddam Hussein's Second in Command).

he calls suicide bombings which kill civilians "heroic military actions".

he incited islamic terrorists to attack his own countrys troops.

[timewilltell7]

@GallowayWatch

lies

[GallowayWatch]

@timewilltell7 nope, facts

[zezt]

A simple search online shows up this silly homophobic man for what he is. Utterly ignorant.

And his nerve for accusing people of being pro war if they condemn torture and murder of gay people.

I once had some respect for him. Not now. And will shout it from the rooftops any chance i can!

[jimed]

people didn't care that much when the pro west shar was in charge of Iran, cheap oil, soon as the west got kicked out then they start!

[lousaffire]

galloway is a propagandist for iranian regime?

well i guess that makes everyone who supported the war a propagandist for capital punishment, Modern Imperialism and mass murder.

funny how one biggoted idea can change something good into something bad.

[goodbyetoulouse77]

Hail Hail George galloway is a courageous man who speaks only the truth, those who fear and hate him are propogandists and zionist nazis who are guilty of the most horrendous war crimes imaginable. free palestine!!!!!!!

[Rachid12051]

That's just disgusting; equating homosexuality with cancer. So what are they saying? Is homosexuality a disease? I am no homosexual, but i'm pretty sure homosexuality is not a genetic disorder

[accapollco57]

Goerge Galloway is a fucking piece of shit whom he want to make from himself something important nothing less nothing more

[keith56uk]

What planet are you on garygt1987? You are like a substantial minority in the West, Galloway included, who think that the sun shines out of muslim and other non-Western bottoms. This attitude is built on arrogance. The fact is muslims can be and are just as nasty as Westerners. Stop treating them like children! Torture, cruelty and oppression is just as horrible done by anyone.

[garygt1987]

Thanks Liam, a voice of sanity in the wilderness lol. Its amazing the degree people are buying into this "you're either with us or against us" GWB mentality these days. You have to allow democracy to florish naturally, and invasion and occupation solves nothing, as we have learnt to our bitter cost, or rather our dead soldiers have. We are the problem essentially.

[liam202202]

Those teenagers, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, who were executed in Iran, that was a heartbreaking case. & anyone who believes the Iranian lie about them being "sex offenders" is crackers.

Having said that, i can see Gary's point; the British Governments concern is phony and disingenious.

We are proping up military death squads in Somalia right now under Ethiopian control but are at the same time posturing over Mugabe, a man knighted by the UK in '94.

Its just totally laughable.

[kayfabepro]

The title of this post is ridiculous. In this segment George is purely trying to tell the truth, and de-bunk the propaganda being used in the media to demonise Iran further.

[keith56uk]

Oh dear - poor old bigot Galloway.

[garygt1987]

Its just another example of the blatant hypocracy that dominates western capitalist governments. You have not one word to say about the unremmitting brutality of the theocratic Saudi Arabia dictatorship and nor does another Member of Parliament, honourable exceptions aside. We prop up these puppet presidents and kings, who are more interested in gambling in Monte Carlo than governing anything, so we can fleece their gross national, and bribe these "leaders" with expensive toys.

[keith56uk]

Most Saudis are zenophobic and bigotted too. But Iran is worse - they execute minorities.

[wigwamSixty3isback]

they do not execute anyone for no reason

[keith56uk]

The Nazis had their reasons too. No doubt George Galloway has his. Reasons are not necessarily right.

[goldyn12345]

galloway is an arab loving dickihead,if he loves them so much he should piss off to the middle east.

[wigwamSixty3isback]

Iran is not an arab country!

[goldyn12345]

what is it then?

[wigwamSixty3isback]

What are you on about? what is it then?

It is a non arab country they do not speak arabic,the main language is persian(Farsi)

Persian is not a language that is related to arab,it is an Indo-Iranian language.only around 2% of People in iran are arabs that speak arab apart from that arabic is hardly spoken in iran.Turkey is in the middle east and so is Israel do they speak arabic,no they dont.other countries that speak persian are Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

[keith56uk]

Galloway has made me so angry over this!!!! He talks of the executed gay guy being executed for sex crimes. Absolutely any HOMOSEXUAL SEX is a sex crime in Iran!!! Galloway is an abonimation.

[ezavarei]

That is not true. There are no specific laws in banning homosexuality. There are relegious laws, like many branches of other faiths, against homosexuality. And again leniency is shown towards any possible cases largely. On the other hand, "young boy abuse" is rather widespread in particular among poor, and is normally punished to the maximum. I am an Iranian myself and have gay friends in Iran. Obviously you cannot have your own prade but if you mind your own business no one will bother you.

[garygt1987]

And Iran has a huge youth population and a massive progressive movement, so i believe things are changing. Everytime the west threatens Iran however, it makes the situation very difficult for Iranian progressives, who get accused of collusion with the enemy.

[keith56uk]

Perhaps if the West had taken the threat of bigotry from Iran more seriously and rebuked Iran for its behaviour, the whole of the Islamic middle-east might have been more tolerant.

[keith56uk]

Iran's religious-based government has regarded itself as an "Islamic Republic" and has its version of Sharia Law. Thus, the religious law (as you put it) of executing homosexuals, is also the law in Iran. Note also that Iran kills its young sons. A video of the execution of gay boys (not men) was available on the Internet only a few years ago. They were both young. They weren't the old having sex with the young. Although executing old gay people isn't exactly enlightened either.

[garygt1987]

You are just plain wrong. Look up Galloway's speeches from around the time of the first gulf war, circa 90/91, and you'll see just how mistaken you are. When he visited Iraq in 1994 (not, as you state, at the start of the first gulf war) he was protesting against the sanctions imposed by the west that eventually killed over 1 million people, mainly children, all because we had fallen out with a dictator who up until 1989 the UK administration were still calling a friend and allie.

[keith56uk]

No, garygt1987, it is you who's wrong. I guess you were too young to see Galloway smiling and slithering in front of Sadam Hussein at the start of the first Gulf War while Hussein was holding a plane load of Western hostages. It was sickening. And as for sanctions: the mistake was not invading Iraq and putting down Sadam during that first conflict as punishment for Iraq's cruel treatment of Kuwaitis. Iraq should've used Galloway as a human shield instead of Western children.

[garygt1987]

Galloway met Hussein twice, once in 94, once in 2003, NOT at the start of the 1st Gulf War. You seem incredibly concerned with the fate of the people of Kuwait, but tell me Keith, have you any thoughts about the hundreds of thousands killed by our army and the allies since 2003? Hussein was a bastard, but a small fry in terms of middle eastern barbarity and corruption. We still do business with most of them. Galloway see's the double standard in that and it drives people like you bonkers.

[keith56uk]

garygt1987 - I was in the Gulf during the first Gulf War, so I paid more than a passing interest in the news. I remember seeing Galloway shaking Hussein's hand and crowing over him while Sadam was holding hostages - British children amongst them. Then Iraq had the third or fourth biggest army in the world - hardly small fry! Galloway concerns me because he convinces naive Brits by playing slight of hand with the truth for his own interests. He is contemptible.

[tech9374]

I agree %100, its weird how so many people seem to "hate" george galloway, we need more mp's like him, and less like keith56uk

[NoEoAoRo]

did you not hear what he said in the clip?

[garygt1987]

We don't want democracy in the middle east, we want slave governments. I'm a gay socialist, so its pretty safe to say i'm not a supporter of the interpretive Sharia law system in Iran. But don't kid yourself. The reason Iran is under threat has fuck all to do with any of that, and less to do with the nuclear question, but everything to do with the fact that Iran will not be a slave to US interests.

[keith56uk]

George Galloway knows nothing. Ever since the Iranian revolution, the Ayottollahs have been persecuting Iranians of other religions and those having gay sex. I remember a news report in the 70s of a 15 year old boy being killed and within the last few years of two boys being hanged for having gay sex. The Iranian regime is barbaric and absolutely no excuses should be made for them, even by the apologist for Sadam Hussein, George Galloway.

[garygt1987]

I'm sorry Keith, you are incorrect on most of these points. George is not an apologist for Hussein; he was one of the few protesters against the Iraqi regime when the US/UK governments were still calling him a strategic allie. I agree that Iran is hardly liberal, but it is no worse than dozens of other countries that our government is happy to do business with. Galloway's own attitudes toward homosexuality are unequivocal - read the Respect manifesto and look up his own voting record.

[keith56uk]

Not true. Galloway went to Iraq as a UK MP at the start of the first Gulf War and treated Hussein as a respected politician after Hussein had invaded Kuwait and taken a plane-full of Western hostages. He's an apologist for middle-eastern cruelty, murder and torture.

[garygt1987]

Anyway, who has made Iran top dog again in the region - us! We took away the secular government who balanced the Islamic republic of Iran - namely, Iraq. Hussein was small beer in terms of middle eastern dictators in truth. Believe me, and as we now know, his opponents were somewhat worse. Since the "liberation" the country has no infrastructure outside of military "green zones", and is awash with militia factions spreading terror far and wide.

[keith56uk]

The Iranian government is one of the worst in the world. Iranians should be ashamed of a regime that persecutes minorities. I've met persecuted Iranians, particularly from religious minorities - for example in the 70s the Anglican Archbishop of Tehran: Revolutionary guards of the evil tyrant, Ayatollah Khomaini, broke into his house and fired shots at him and his wife while they were asleep in bed. Later, they also killed his son. I've also met persecuted families of the Bahia Faith.

[garygt1987]

The same crap used to add weight to the case for war with Iraq is being used in regards to Iran. But i tell you this, the consequences of such an attack would be calamatus beyond all imaganing. Iran has not attacked another country in 300 years, but if attacked, she would respond. And the student pro democracy movement making headway in Tehran would be obliterated utterly, and the Islamic extremists emboldened to a terrifying degree.

[rossyboy1000]

God created adam & eve not adam and steve!!!

[progunbrit]

But actually, GOD doesn't exist. So who care? Sodomy will not, most probably, produce any offspring, so Darwin prevails!! YEAH!!

[garygt1987]

Just look at Afghanistan. In the late 70's you have a democratically elected communist government who were building hospitals, educating women at university level etc. What did the USA with the full backing of the UK do? Support, train and fund Islamic radicals to assasinate the president and dismantle the elected government in a bloody guerilla war, and plunge the country back into the stone age. Oh and did i mention a certain Mr Bin Laden was a key player? You said it Liam - laughable.

[steve62482]

The PDPA was not democratically elected i'm afraid. In 1978 in Afghanistan, the idea of western style democracy was basically alien. But they were a force for progressive, secular values, no doubt, espousing freedom of religion and land reforms to tackle the obscene countrywide debts suffered by farmers, as well as introducing the very notion of women's rights - Anahita Ratebzad, for example, a member of the Revolutionary Council. What you say about slave governments is on the money btw.

[arifur003]

The writer of the title is actually a propagandist for Zionist regime.

[badnewswade]

See what I mean :-D

[garygt1987]

Harsh words flying around here. My mate lives in Galloway's constituency and speaks very highly of him, and i think GG makes a lot of sense. Also, his record on gay rights is progressive & compassionate. His point is that Kazemi's case is being used by the media to further demonise Iran and strengthen the case for an attack. I do think he's naive in believing the line that all those gays executed in Iran are being treated so because they are rapists rather than for simply being gay.

[garygt1987]

I believe that through interpretive Sharia law, many gay Iranians are executed under sodomy laws, though certainly as the record shows not in every case. But you have to see the big picture. I work with asylum seekers and have heard horrendous stories of persecution and torture from LGBT people which never make the news. Kazemi's case is not an isolated one sadly.

[ezavarei]

"many gay Iranians are executed under sodomy laws"

That is a big fat lie!!! If you get your facts from watching TV all day long or get your facts from a bunch of lazy ass liars who would say anything to get asylum status, then you are ready for another lie to be sold to you by your warmonger government.

[garygt1987]

Er, calm down mate, i think you'll find i'm essentially agreeing with you. I agree, the Kazemi case was being used for propergander purposes. But i do work with asylum seekers from Iran who have been subjected to torture for this reason, but having said that, nothing on the scale of the human rights abuses in other countries, namely Somalia and Saudi, both countries the British government back to the hilt.

[garygt1987]

However, Saudi Arabia will never be demonised in the same way, despite there hideous human rights record, because they are best friends with the British government and business community. Its the double standard which pisses me off. All human rights abuses are disgusting, not just those who come from countries our media and government want to go to war against.

[007KevinD]

Bigot and a homophobe!

[MrMP81]

To you people speaking negatively about Galloway should take your head out of your asses and read a thing or 2.

He would not be a fascist but a socialist. That is his political view, who are you to dismiss him for it.

He Saluted Saddam for standing up against the U.S. foreign policy, so what is your point? He didn't salute him for being a dictator, he saluted for his stance. Big difference.

90% of the time Galloway speaks truth to power, with facts. Figures like him are rare these days.

[MrMP81]

My mistake, I meant to say I agree with him 95 to 100% of the time and that he speaks Truth to power.

[badnewswade]

Not a socialist now. First the Jews, now the Gays. Am I alone in seeing a pattern?

Chris Rock once said of accepted racism among American right wingers:

"When they started saying 'F%$£ all these illegal aliens', I started listening - cos I know Niggas and Jews is next. Any day now - that train's never late!"

Galloway may once have been a socialist but his willingness to turn on minorities marks him out as a bitter right winger.

Sod Galloway and his hateful conspiracy theories.

[MrMP81]

Conspiracies are just that because of lack of hard proof, but what he says can be proven. -=/

[badnewswade]

What are you talking about?

Don't mince words, if you think the Jews and Gays control the world, just spit it out. After all, you're defending a bigot so you might as well be open about your own prejudice.

[MrMP81]

Gays? I didn't say anything about gays lol

Jews? Not Jews in the traditional sense of the followers of Judaism, but those that are about their own selfish power, pride & greed... The Zionists. They are not real Jews, they use events to boost their own agendas. They have done just that since WW2.

[badnewswade]

Oh come on, don't be coy. You're a 1930s style anti-semite who believes in the Jewish Conspiracy.

This is the problem with "political correctness", folks, it taught the bigots to mince their weasel words.

[MrMP81]

Assumptions are the mother of all f- ups. Don't throw labels onto me because you have no argument.

The point was made, it can be researched. Instead of trying to do what the " Zionists " have done to other people for stating truths ( or questioning ) motives or events.

Based on that last comment, I see what you're trying to do, I will leave it with this and this conversation is finished :)

[keith56uk]

Who are we? We are the oppressed, the tortured and betrayed. Betrayed by Galloway and his nasty supporters.

[tech9374]

You are a ignorant cock

[keith56uk]

You prove my point - tech9374.

[tech9374]

No, i didnt prove anything.

Galloway is a nice person with a heart, just because he cares about all colours and religions, hes a traitor?

Fuck off keith, we dont need grump old racists on youtube.

[keith56uk]

It is interesting, tech9374, that those who do not wish to consider other people's arguements label them with hateful names. You label me, a grump, old and a racist. I freely acknowledge I'm old and object to other people's cruel actions. As for being a racist, that's nonsense. I've had gay sex with more races than I can count on two hands including with Arabs and Persians. I suppose now you will call me by some rude name used for gays. That would fit in with your support for George Galloway.

[klimes86]

If we were living in September 1939. Galloway would be supporting Nazi Germany and Oswald Mosley. He is a demagogue, noting more.

[keith56uk]

He just wants to continue to be famous - nothing more. He doesn't care for muslims or he'd be decrying the Iranian regime. He cares only for his own selfish interests.

[klimes86]

Goerge Galloway is a first class fascist. This is the man who saluted Saddam Hussein, this is the man that said the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest catastrophe of his life. Galloway always says the Labour MPs and those who supported the Iraq War have on their conscience, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Strange how he does not apply that logic to himself. He never says he has on his conscience the tens of millions of people who killed by communist regimes.

[pretzelberg]

#the man that said the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest catastrophe of his life ... he has on his conscience the tens of millions of people who killed by communist regimes.#

What tens of millions were these, whose death he directly or indirectly encouraged? Has he praised Stalin anywhere? Maybe - just asking.

But then you say#Goerge Galloway is a first class fascist# ??

Back to school for you, it seems: Political Science 101

p.s. I am no fan of Galloway.

[maddohartlepool]

What about the 10s of millions of people killed by Capitalist regimes?

You sound like the type of Capitalist-Holocaust denier who actually believes the latest claim that Mao was responsible for 70million deaths.

Don't you understand Capitalist propaganda?

Don't you think it's funny that Mao's death toll has shot up now that China is our main economic competitor?

Where do you think they got the figures from? The latest Chinese defector took a wild guess & that's good enough for us!

[keith56uk]

No wonder communism is dead! Communists excuse murder, cruelty and torture if done by a regime they like. How callous!

[masudrules]

he didn't say gay Iranians IN GENERAL aren't hanged, he said that in this specific case the brother was executed for committing a sex crime; are you sure this isn't true? (I don't know btw) if so, Galloway made a mistake, or he is lying...but by no stretch of the English language can what Galloway said be construed as a generalisation of why executions take place in Iran

[tompegg482]

George Galloway is liberal - he has not stated anything wrong, merely quoting the papers and showing their incorrect implications made about Iran's view on Homosexuality and that this is war-propaganda. However, there is no real evidence that Mehdi Kazemi's boyfriend launched "sex attacks" upon young men as the sources we have that claim this (Iran and it's stance, communally and religiously, on homosexuality) is bias. Although he says it would be ridiculous if they did deport him.

[moonrat8]

It pisses me off how people like Galloway and his party will abandon gay and women's rights to pander to right wing Muslims for votes. Then playing the race card and further whipping up tensions.

Just goes to show how low people will go for power and money.

[moonrat8]

George Galloway is a self-serving clown who panders to right wing Muslims and whose party will happily pull the race card on anybody who disagrees.

The RESPECT party are a manipulative disgrace. They pretty much stalk people, they did to me. Asked me to stand as a RESPECT candidate in student elections and I refused because of Adam Yosef's articles and because of right wing donors they have. I was accused of saying 'all Muslims are homophobic' and pretty much of being prejudiced.

[curiousjude]

There are around 4,000 names of gay people executed in Iran since the revolution in 1979. Please search Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, Outrage or other relevant human rights NGOs to find individual cases. This issue is not about war propoganda, but asylum. Denying this reality as an anti war argument risks abandoning asylum seekers to torture and slow execution. Use other arguments e.g. threat/reality of war will drive up persecution, lend support to religious conservatives and destroy Iran

[nineeightfive]

Find me one gay person who was executed for the crime of being gay. Give me one name.

[dumbass1984]

Goerge Galloway wants us not to go to war with Iran because the situation is exsactly the same as Iraq. Even US inteligence stats that Iran is not making nuclear wepons.

[thecouchtripper]

if Galloway is misinformed that's fair enough - but it doesn't make him a bigot. To the people who posted this video - stop whipping up hatred you pathetic cunts.

[CalatilySisters]

if it stopped someone who wasn't a criminal, from being executed, is it really hate?

[thecouchtripper]

individual cases are the problem - the people who posted this video have an agenda that is far more damaging than one unfortunate case.

They want war. They are the threat.

[CalatilySisters]

yes, i feared for the safety of Iran and how real it could be , but Tatchell and the likes have only one issue, they see themselves in these boys, and how love is a crime. Shia islam is as good or bad as any other faith, but its rules shouldn't be forced on others. That boys life is safe because of the UK, & love and peace is fragile but it can save lives AND PREVENT WAR.

[MarquisdeLafayette]

What a vile homophobic bigot Galloway is. He should go into exile with the theocrats in Tehran.

[eirefreejoe]

Marquisdelafayette,maybe being French you havnt got a good grasp of the English Language.I suggest you listen again you fool!

[CalatilySisters]

i think marquis has a good point, would you rather support someone openly being gay or someone with power who condemns it?

[CalatilySisters]

i think marquis has a good point, would you rather support someone openly being gay or someone with power who condemns it?

[schoonero]

So let me get this straight.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend even if that makes me friends with the enemy of my friends?

[jamesandkat07]

Galloway never condemns Iran for its proxy agaisnt Israel either. Iran care less about the Palestineans then Israel do.

You never hear condemn that.

Galloway is an old narrow minded fool

[Kalsingh]

Really? is that why Hamas GO to Iran to b taught by the Rebublican Guard?? Yanks are troublesome animals, when 9/11 took place THEN they realised what it was like!!

[Rickdeckard2020]

GG: Great man, I agree with most of his views.

Iran: Bad human rights record I'll grant you that, but the UK and the US arent in a position to lecture anyone least of all Iran, Iran hasnt flown across to another continent to bomb and kill thousands of people, and this transparent campaign to slander Iran to intimidate it or whip up support for further war crimes on yet another country wont fool anyone.

[BMWmehrdad]

rick you got it right on the money, iran only needs time recoup for its losses after the turn of the 20 century. moreover iran does have the capability to move forward like it has always.

[CalatilySisters]

what about gay americans and brits? can they be vocal about the executions & want the same for gay iranians? im afraid if someone put what george says into practice, they would be hanged too.

[jaystewart1975]

george galloway is the man!! another great performance on the right stuff