TEHRAN: Iran on Monday denied any link with the attacker of British-American author Salman Rushdie, but blamed the writer himself for "insulting" Islam in the novel The Satanic Verses.
"We categorically deny" any link with the attack and "no one has the right to accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran," Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in Tehran's first official reaction to last Friday's stabbing.
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