Tying the diminishment of female homosocial space in Tehran to the strengthening of (predominately) U.S.-based LGBT rescue narratives, I will reveal how the relegation of historically rich and sexually ambiguous forms of female-female desire to the (homo)sexual sphere serves to reinforce both Orientalist interpretations of "Eastern"sexuality as well as U.S. discourse of "natural" links between sexual acts and identity. Additionally, an examination of the recent media hysteria over the "Green Movement" after Iran's now notorious 2009 presidential election will demonstrate how the construction and constant recirculation of the "Green Movement" interpellates Iranian citizens as liberal Westernized subjects. Through the use of Jasbir Puar's formulation of "queer exceptionalism" in _Terrorist Assemblages_, I will demonstrate how the construction of "LGBT" Iranians is necessary for U.S. neoliberal understandings of self through positioning the U.S. as tolerant and progressive vis-à-vis a barbaric and abhorrently sexually repressed imagining of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Incitement to this and "Green Movement" discourses demands recognition of the self as a liberal subject deserving of civil rights, regardless of sexual “identity” which is constructed through LGBT discourses to begin with. Through the use of Puar, Joseph Massad's _Desiring Arabs_, and Kathryn Babayan's work on female homosociality in Iran, I demonstrate how both discourses ultimately aid in the diminishment of different kinds of female desire and demand an Iranian understanding of the self that can be weaved into the specifically neoliberal multicultural fabric of the United States, or face being left in the backward and primitive Orient.