Attack on Salman Rushdie: Iran denies any connection and blames the writer and his followers for the attack

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Attack on Salman Rushdie: Iran denies any connection and blames the writer and his followers for the attack

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The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Nasser Kanaani. Photo: AP

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Iran denied on Monday “categorically” any connection with the aggressor who on Friday stabbed the British writer Salman Rushdie, author of the novel “The Satanic Verses”, against which Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa demanding death in the United States. 1989. But blamed the writer and his followers for the attack.

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

“In this attackonly Rushdie and his supporters deserve to be blamed and even convicted, “Kanani stressed during his weekly press conference in Tehran.


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