Published on : 15/08/2022 – 09:30
Iran denied “categorically” on Monday August 15 any link with the assailant who stabbed Salman Rushdie, author of the novel “Satanic Verses”, during a conference in the north of the United States on Friday. “We categorically deny” any link between the aggressor and Iran, and “no one has the right to accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran”, said Nasser Kanani, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Tehran’s first official reaction to the attack on the British writer. “In this attack, only Salman Rushdie and his supporters deserve to be blamed and even condemned,” he stressed during his weekly press conference in Tehran. “By insulting the sacred things of Islam and crossing the red lines of more than a billion and a half Muslims and all followers of divine religions, Salman Rushdie has exposed himself to the anger and rage of the people “, he added.
