I'm sorry your comment totally didn't 100% imply that. Good that you corrected me there with plausible deniability.
What the fuck does that have to do with the pre-European Middle East criminalizing homosexuality?
Iran was becoming more secularized and "Western" until their government was overthrown in 1953 and AGAIN in 1979 for not giving free oil to Britain and America.
LGBT stuff in the West was stigmatized until like 20 years ago and you're out here criticizing governments from 70 years ago for not being progressive enough.
1950's was when America was just getting rid of their Jim Crow apartheids laws.