The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxA popular cleric in Iran has been condemned for claiming those who get vaccinated against coronavirus will turn gay.Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian took to Telegram, a social media app where he has almost 210,000 followers, to publish a homophobic rant over the weekend. "Don't go near those who have had the COVID vaccine," he said."They have become homosexuals."The radical Islamist from Qom has made similarly derogatory remarks about Western medicine in the past, including burning Harrison's Manual of Medicine because it was "irrelevant".