The Ayatollah regime’s state-funded Iranian newspaper Kayhan published an op-ed on Saturday expressing “joy” over Friday’s attack once morest the Indian writer Salman Rushdie.
The editorial celebrated the attack and thanked the perpetrator of the attack on Rushdie. For its part, the Iranian state has so far made no official comment on the attack.
Rushdie was attacked Friday in New York as he prepared to give a talk at a cultural center. The assailant stabbed him in the neck and several other places on the body. Rushdie survived, but is in critical condition in an American hospital, on life support.
According to a statement from his agent, Rushdie is at risk of losing an eye, has liver damage and nerve damage in one of his arms. According to New York State Police, the assailant has been arrested. IHe is a 24 year old Muslim man. resident of the neighboring state of New Jersey. The reason for the attack has not yet been revealed, but everything suggests that it was a terrorist attack motivated by the Indian writer’s hatred of radical Islam.
Rushdie has had the Iranian regime’s sword of Damocles around his neck since 1989, when former Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa once morest the writer for the publication of his most popular novel, satanic verses.
Since then, Rushdie has lived under protection, including from the British state. He rarely appeared in public and his whereregardings are often unknown due to threats.
