An Iranian basis has lauded the person who attacked celebrated novelist Salman Rushdie and introduced that he’ll be rewarded with 1,000 sq. meters of agricultural land.
An #Iranian basis has praised the person who attacked #SalmanRushdie. The basis stated that it’s going to praise the attacker with 1,000 metres of agricultural land for his ‘courageous motion’. The 75-year-old #writer misplaced an eye fixed and the usage of one hand following the #attack. %.twitter.com/S10qlibIzC
— Replicate Now (@MirrorNow) February 21, 2023
“We sincerely thank the courageous motion of the younger American who made Muslims glad by way of blinding one in every of Rushdie’s eyes and disabling one in every of his fingers,” stated Mohammad Esmail Zarei, secretary of the Basis to enforce Imam Khomeini’s Fatwas.
“Rushdie is now not more than a residing useless individual and to honor this courageous motion, about 1,000 sq. meters of agricultural land will likely be donated to the individual or any of his criminal representatives,” Zarei added.
Salman Rushdie used to be stabbed within the neck and stomach by way of an attacker recognized as 25-year-old Hadi Matar in New York in August 2022. Rushdie misplaced an eye fixed and the usage of one hand following the attack.
Iran blamed Salman Rushdie and his supporters for the assault at the writer’s lifestyles
Quickly after the reviews of the assault got here out, the palms have been pointed towards the fatwa that used to be issued in Tehran 3 many years in the past calling for Rushdie’s assassination. Iran, looking to deny any hyperlink between the assault and the fatwa, washed its fingers off the assault and as an alternative blamed Rushdie and his supporters for the assault.
Particularly, Iranian media had widely gloated after the assault and known as it ‘divine retribution’. Reacting to the media reviews that Rushdie would possibly lose one eye following the assault, Iran’s state broadcaster Jaam-e Jam stated, “A watch of Devil has been blinded.” US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had termed Iran’s media’s habits ‘despicable’.
On August 15 (native time), Nasser Kanaani Tehran, overseas ministry spokesperson of Iran, categorically denied any hyperlinks between the attacker and the Islamic nation.
He stated, “Nobody has the appropriate to accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Particularly, he stated Freedom of Speech does now not give the appropriate to Rushdie to insult Islam in his writings.
Blaming Salman Rushdie for the assault, Nasser had stated, “On this assault, we don’t believe somebody as opposed to Salman Rushdie and his supporters worthy of blame or even condemnation,” right through his weekly press convention. He added, “Through insulting the sacred issues of Islam and crossing the crimson strains of greater than 1.5 billion Muslims and all fans of the divine religions, Salman Rushdie has uncovered himself to the anger and rage of the folk.”
It’s noteworthy that once Satanic Verses used to be printed, the then-Iranian chief Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa in opposition to Salman Rushdie, calling for his assassination, and positioned a bounty of $3 million on his head. The fatwa remains to be lively although the Iranian govt has distanced itself from the decree. Later in 2012, a quasi-official Iranian non secular basis added $500,000 to the bounty.