It's hard to find good numbers on stoning in Iran, but I see that Amnesty International gives a figure of two people stoned to death in Iran in 2006 and one in 2007. This works out to something like 0.000002% of the population per year.
I'm not sure what kind of moral equivalence there may be between the two, but I'm unwilling to give more importance to millions of peasants callously starved to death per woman* stoned. (If you count only the beating deaths in the Great Leap Forward, it falls to 0.094% of the population, 45,000 times larger than the Iran figure.)
But as much as I despise communism, I wouldn't be willing to put the same burden on the citizens of the PRC that you lay on the citizens of Iran. But I'm curious: would you?
