-A number of hardline Iranian newspapers heaped reward on Saturday on the one that attacked and significantly wounded writer Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” had drawn demise threats from Iran since 1989.
There was no official response but in Iran to the assault on Rushdie, who was stabbed within the neck and torso on Friday whereas onstage at a lecture in New York state.
Nevertheless, the hardline Kayhan newspaper, whose editor-in-chief is appointed by Iran’s Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei, wrote:
“A thousand bravos … to the courageous and dutiful one that attacked the apostate and evil Salman Rushdie in New York,” including, “The hand of the person who tore the neck of God’s enemy have to be kissed”.
The chief of Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa, or spiritual edict, in 1989 that known as on Muslims around the globe to kill the Indian-born writer after his guide was condemned as blasphemous, forcing him into years of hiding.
In 2019, Twitter suspended Khamenei’s account over a tweet that stated Khomeini’s fatwa towards Rushdie was “stable and irrevocable”.
The Asr Iran information web site on Saturday carried an typically cited quote by Khamenei that stated the “arrow” shot by Khomeini “will in the future hit the goal”.
The fifteenth Khordad Basis, a rich Iranian spiritual organisation, elevated the bounty on Rushdie’s head to $2.5 million in 1997, eight years after it first supplied a reward. The inspiration elevated the quantity to $3.3 million in 2012.
The inspiration, amongst scores of our bodies supervised by Khamenei’s workplace, has not reacted publicly to the assault on Rushdie and didn't instantly reply on Saturday to a Reuters emailed request for remark.
The headline of the hardline Vatan Emrooz newspaper learn: “Knife in Salman Rushdie’s neck”.
The Khorasan day by day carried the headline: “Devil on the best way to hell”.
NBC New York cited legislation enforcement sources as saying on Saturday that the suspect within the assault, California-born Hadi Matar, was sympathetic to Shi’ite Muslim extremism and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Rushdie was on a ventilator and unable to talk on Friday night after the incident, condemned by writers and politicians around the globe as an assault on freedom of expression.
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