Attack on Salman Rushdie: Iran “categorically” denies any link to the aggressor

Tehran said Monday it “categorically” denies any link to Salman Rushdie’s assailant, who stabbed the writer at a conference near New York on Friday.

“We categorically deny” any link between the aggressor and Iran and “no one has the right to accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in Tehran’s first official reaction to the attack.

Salman Rushdie had been the target since 1989 of a fatwa delivered by Imam Khomeini, the supreme leader of the Iranian Islamic revolution. He had called “all the zealous Muslims of the world to execute quickly, wherever they are”, the writer of satanic verses.

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