Iran denies link with Rushdie's attacker, blames writer

By Agence France-Presse

Aug 16, 2022 12:00 am

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.

This Aug. 13, 2022 file photo shows two men at a newspaper stall in Iran’s capital Tehran, looking at broadsheets carrying news of British-American novelist Salman Rushdie’s stabbing during a literary event in New York state the day before. AFP PHOTO

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