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On Thursday, Salman Rushdie, \u200cthe British novelist, was attacked<\/a> and stabbed several times by a knife, totting Islamist extremists supporting the Iranian regime (in his Twitter timeline) in upstate New York. The police announced the attacker’s identity, but details have not been released yet. Regardless of who the attacker is and whether he acted alone or this attack was organized, the instigator and the actual party responsible for this reprehensible attack was the Iranian regime and its supreme leader. The New York attacker just implemented the decree of Iran’s regime supreme leader and was encouraged by the regime\u2019s offer of a hefty worldly reward and a place in \u201cheaven.\u201d<\/p>\n The decree in question to kill Rushdie was issued in February 1989 by then Iranian regime’s supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini. Ali Khamenei, the current supreme leader, and other leaders of the regime had always vowed to implement this anti-Islamic fatwa in the past 34 years and set millions of dollars reward for this terrorist act.<\/p>\n On February 14, 1993, Khamenei said: “Imam (Khomeini) shot an arrow towards this man who is a liar and a slanderer. His arrow has left the bow, and the targeting is accurate. Sooner or later, this arrow will hit the target. Indeed, his (death) sentence must be implemented, and it will be.”<\/p>\n According to the state-run News agency, Mizan, in response to a question on October 22, 2015, inquiring, “Is the apostasy fatwa for Salman Rushdie, an apostate and a liar, valid or not? What is the duty of Muslims in this case?” Khamenei replied, “The ruling is the same as Imam Khomeini (may God bless him and grant him peace) stated.”<\/p>\n Hassan Sanei, Khamenei’s representative and head of the 15 Khordad Foundation, set a reward of 3.3 million dollars for the “execution of Salman Rushdie.”<\/p>\n The fatwa in question has been one of the sharpest signs of the Iranian regime’s state sponsor of terrorism, and the regime is not shy away from boosting the terrorist act in its official media. A glance at the state-run media a day after the attack speaks volumes.<\/p>\n In a detailed piece on August 12, 2022, the state-run Fars news agency wrote,\u00a0“On Tuesday, February 15, a fatwa was issued by Imam Khomeini, may God have mercy on him, about Salman Rushdie’s apostasy and the need for his elimination…<\/em><\/p>\n “Ayatollah Khamenei, the president at the time, during a radio interview welcoming Imam’s fatwa, \u2026 said: This is a ruling that every Islamic jurist should give the same ruling if they want to act according to Islamic rulings. This fatwa is definitive. That is, the person who commits such a mistake is certainly condemned to death, and it is obligatory to eliminate him from the world…\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n “The 15 Khordad Foundation also announced that it has set a million dollars as a reward for the assassination of Salman Rushdie. Years later, Hassan Sanei, the head of the foundation, said I directly offered the reward for Salman Rushdie’s murder to the Imam, and the Imam prayed.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The Iranian resistance in a statement strongly condemned<\/a> the attack that “took place at the instigation of Khomeini’s fatwa.\u201d<\/p>\n “The vicious murder attempt on Salman Rushdie with the Khomeini\/Khamenei fatwa is the clear brutality of the anti-Islamic mullahs’ regime. Rafsanjani, Khatami, and Rouhani approved the fatwa. Their officials, such as Mohajerani, encourage violence\/terrorism by promoting the mullahs’ regime ruling Iran must be banished from the United Nations, and its operatives put on trial and expelled.” Mohammad Mohaddessin, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the NCRI, tweeted.<\/p>\n 1)The vicious murder attempt on #SalmanRushdie<\/a> with the Khomeini\/Khamenei fatwa is the clear brutality of the anti-Islamic mullahs\u2019 regime. Rafsanjani, Khatami & Rouhani approved the fatwa. Their officials, such as Mohajerani, encourage violence\/terrorism by promoting the #fatwa<\/a>.<\/p>\n — Mohammad Mohaddessin (@Mohaddessin) August 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"Wall-writing-Saman-Rushdie\"](\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wall-writing-Saman-Rushdie.jpg\" "\\"Wall-writing-Saman-Rushdie\\"")
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