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LGBT history in Iran
This article covers the LGBT history of Iran.
== Pre-Islamic period ==
The history of homosexuality in Iran has been both influential and contradictory. The religion of Zoroastrianism in the country, which reached its peak under the Sassanids, taught that all homosexuals (active or passive) are inherently demonic and as such they must be put to death when detected. This condemnation seems to have made its way slowly against the much older Iranian tradition of polytheism and initiatory pederasty, coming into sharp conflict during the Achaemenid period.
Persian pederasty and its origins was debated even in ancient times. Herodotus claimed they had learned it from the Greeks: "From the Greeks they have learned to lie with boys."〔Herodotus, ''Histories,'' I.135, tr. David Grene; p.97〕 However, Plutarch asserts that the Persians used eunuch boys to that end long before contact between the cultures.〔Plutarch, ''De Malig. Herod.'' xiii.ll〕 In either case, Plato claimed they saw fit to forbid it to the inhabitants of the lands they occupied, since "It does not suit the rulers that their subjects should think noble thoughts, nor that they should form the strong friendships and attachments which these activities, and in particular love, tend to produce."〔Plato, ''Symposium,'' 182c, trans. Tom Griffith〕
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