Iran denies involvement in attack on author Salman Rushdie
An Iranian authorities official denied on Monday that Tehran was concerned within the assault on creator Salman Rushdie, in remarks that have been the nation’s first public feedback on the assault.
The feedback by Nasser Kanaani, the spokesperson for Iran’s Overseas Ministry, have been issued three days after the assault on Rushdie in New York state.
Iran has denied finishing up different operations overseas concentrating on dissidents within the years for the reason that nation’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, regardless of prosecutors and Western governments attributing such assaults again to Tehran.
“We, within the incident of the assault on Salman Rushdie within the U.S., don’t take into account that anybody deserves blame and accusations besides him and his supporters,” Kanaani mentioned. “No person has proper to accuse Iran on this regard.”
Rushdie, 75, was stabbed Friday whereas attending an occasion in western New York. He suffered a broken liver and severed nerves in an arm and a watch, his agent mentioned. He was more likely to lose the injured eye.
His assailant, 24-year-old Hadi Matar of New Jersey, has pleaded not responsible to prices stemming from the assault by way of his lawyer.
The award-winning creator for greater than 30 years has confronted loss of life threats for his novel The Satanic Verses. Iran’s late Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had issued a fatwa, or Islamic edict, demanding his loss of life. An Iranian basis had put up a bounty of over $3 million for the creator.
Kanaani added that Iran didn’t “have every other info greater than what the American media has reported.”
The West “condemning the actions of the attacker and in return glorifying the actions of the insulter to Islamic beliefs is a contradictory perspective,” Kanaani mentioned.
