A porn actor who called himself a "Persian prince" was arrested in Iran and faces the death penalty (3 photos)

Serin Badia, 51, is of Iranian-American descent. In recent years he lived in the USA and acted in porn, and then suddenly he decided to come to Iran - and regretted it.





Serin Badia was born in Tehran in 1971, after which he left for the United States, where after a while he received American citizenship. He made money from porn with men, called himself “the immortal Serin of the Sasanian Persian Empire” and “the Persian prince of ancient royal blood,” and also claimed that his father was killed in Iran, all his property was confiscated, and America is the only bastion of freedom.



It’s difficult to say how much this lie and flattery advanced Badia’s career and helped him make money, however, it seems that he never made sense, because... I recently decided to visit my homeland, which I later regretted greatly.

After arriving in Iran, Badia was arrested three days later. He is charged with insulting holy places, waging war against God, the Koran and the Iranian government.. For Iran, these are very serious charges, and the detainee may face the death penalty by hanging.

Badia's arrest caused, as local media write, a split in Iranian society. Many users agreed that their former compatriot should be punished for his immorality, but some said the Iranian's arrest was a government ploy to distract attention from pressing issues such as the exchange rate, inflation and allegations of financial corruption.



Let us remember that Iran is one of the countries in the world in which same-sex relations are a criminal offense, for which one can face both a prison term and the death penalty. The exact number of Iranians executed for perversion is not disclosed, but according to rough estimates, there are several thousand.

Same-sex contact is also punishable by death in states where Sharia law applies: Yemen, Saudi Arabia, parts of Nigeria and Somalia.