Iranians have reacted with praise and worry over the attack on novelist Salman Rushdie, the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death. 9News
, the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death.
Others, however, worried aloud that Iran could become even more cut off from the world as tensions remain high over its tattered nuclear deal. He added: "Whoever is killed doing this will be regarded as a martyr and will go directly to heaven."Author Salman Rushdie talks about the start of his writing career during the Mississippi Book Festival in 2018.
's main story covered what it described as: "A knife in the neck of Salman Rushdie". The reformist newspaperbore a large image of Rushdie on a stretcher, its headline blaring: "Satan on the path to hell." On Saturday, Mohammad Mahdi Movaghar, a 34-year-old Tehran resident, described having a "good feeling" after seeing Rushdie attacked.
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