Iran's rulers bear responsibility for the attack against the British writer Salman Rushdie as the Islamic republic never repudiated a 1989 order issued by its founder calling for the novelist to be killed,…
There was praise from Iran's strongly conservative press for the attack on world-renowned author Salman Rushdie, which has left him on a ventilator. Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah has denied any knowledge.
More than three decades after Iran's leader issued a fatwa, Teheran has blamed Rushdie's supporters for the knife attack on the award-winning novelist in the US.
Iran on Monday denied any link with the attacker of British author Salman Rushdie but blamed the writer himself for "insulting" Islam in the novel "The Satanic Verses"."We categorically deny" any link with the attack and "no one has the right to accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran," said foreign min…
Salman Rushdie was the victim of an attempted assassination during an event at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York on August 12. The Satanic Verses author was stabbed 10-15
An Iranian government official is denying that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie. The remarks were the country’s first public comments on the attack. Nasser Kanaani,
An Iranian government official is denying that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie, in remarks that were the country’s first public comments on the attack.
An Iranian government official has denied that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie. However, the remarks on Monday by Nasser Kanaani, the spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry, justified the stabbing in remarks that represented the Islamic Republic’s first public comments on t…
An Iranian government official has denied that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie he justified the stabbing and blamed Rushdie himself.
In 1989, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa, or Islamic edict, demanding the author's death, and while Iran has not focused on Rushdie in recent years, the decree still stands.
By Adam Pourahmadi, Alex Stambaugh and Kara Fox, CNN Iran denied any link to the stabbing of Salman Rushdie and cast the blame on the author and his supporters for the attack that left him with life-changing injuries.
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Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Tehran was not involved in the recent assault against Salman Rushdie. This was the country's first public comment about the attack.
