Hard-line Iranian media praises Rushdie attack
Hard-liners in Iranian media have praised the attack on author Salman Rushdie.
![Author Salman Rushdie at the Blue Sofa during the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Oct. 12, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/2022-08/GettyImages-860543016.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=Ng_mv2Hd)
Hard-line Iranian media has praised the knife attack on the author Salman Rushdie, who once had a death sentence issued against him by the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
The hard-line Kayhan newspaper wrote — in an article titled, “Rushdie received divine revenge, Trump and Pompeo are next” — how Rushdie’s novel “Satanic Verses” was deemed an “insult to Islam, the Prophet and the Quran” by Khomeini. In 1989, Khomeini issued a fatwa calling on Muslims who are able to kill Rushdie and those behind the publishing of the book.