{"id":262386,"date":"2022-08-16T16:49:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T14:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=262386"},"modified":"2023-02-06T11:43:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T10:43:37","slug":"irans-regime-reinforces-terrorist-concerns-with-justification-for-rushdie-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-a-world\/irans-regime-reinforces-terrorist-concerns-with-justification-for-rushdie-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Regime Reinforces Terrorist Concerns With Justification for Rushdie Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Front page of Khamenei’s mouthpiece, the Kayhan daily: Salman Rushdie caught in divine revenge, Trump and Pompeo in the next turn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Iran\u2019s regime Foreign Ministry offered the regime\u2019s first official statement on Monday regarding the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie<\/a>, simultaneously denying any responsibility for it while also asserting that it was entirely justified. Since 1989, the author has been the subject of a fatwa issued by the regime\u2019s founder Ruhollah Khomeini, which called for labeling him as an apostate and enemy of God and called for his death.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Rushdie was stabbed repeatedly after taking the stage at a literary event in Western New York where he was scheduled to deliver a speech. Many initial reports of the attack claimed that a motive was unclear, while others mentioned the Iranian regime\u2019s longstanding incitement against Rushdie as the likeliest explanation. On the other hand, many reports also claimed that the regime had distanced itself from Khomeini\u2019s fatwa<\/a> in recent years, though the accuracy of this claim is questionable.<\/p>\n

In 2005, Khomeini\u2019s successor Ali Khamenei, who still holds the supreme leadership today, reaffirmed the contents of the fatwa, noting that Rushdie\u2019s killing would be religiously justified under the regime\u2019s official, fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law. In 2014, one of Khamenei\u2019s close advisors and a member of the powerful clerical body known as the Assembly of Experts, Ahmad Khatami, said at a Friday prayer gathering in Tehran, \u201cThis fatwa is still fresh among Muslims, and many believers are looking for an opportunity to implement Imam\u2019s order.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What to make of Salman Rushdie\u2019s murder attempt?<\/div><\/div>
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