Iran’s main ultra-conservative newspaper Kaihan today congratulated the man who yesterday, Friday, stabbed world-famous British author Salman Rushdie in the US.
An official of the armed organization Hezbollah in Iran-backed Lebanon said today that the organization has no additional information about it knife attack which the author accepted Salman Rushdie.
“We don’t know anything about this case. Thus, we will not comment”the official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The Iranian press is having a “party” for the attack
The main Iranian ultraconservative Kaihan newspaper today congratulated the man who yesterday, Friday, stabbed the world-famous Briton in the USA author Salman Rushdie, author of the “Satanic Verses”, who has been the target of one for over 30 years Iranian fetfa.
“Well done to this courageous and dutiful man who attacked the renegade and evil Salman Rushdie,” writes the newspaper, whose head is appointed by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“Let us kiss the hand of him that tore the throat of the enemy of God with a knife,” the article continues.
The attacker stabbed Rushdie in the neck and abdomen at a cultural center auditorium in Chautauqua, in northwestern New York state. According to his literary agent, the author is intubated and may lose one of his eyes.
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