British writer Salman Rushdie has been attacked in New York as he was about to give a lecture. Rushdie was sentenced to death by a fatwa of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989, following the publication of his work The Satanic Verses, which the fanatical founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran considered blasphemous.
Rushdie was taking the stage at the Chautauqua Institution, located in the town of the same name by Lake Eire, when a man caught up with him and began punching and stabbing him.
#SalmanRushdie just attacked onstage at @chq @NBCNews @ABC @cnnbrk pic.twitter.com/I1XT6AmkhK
- Charles Savenor (@CharlieSavenor) August 12, 2022
The Iranian threat
The attack on Rushdie comes just days after it was reported that Iran tried to assassinate former Trump Administration officials Mike Pompeo and John Bolton. and the arrest of an individual armed with a rifle who had been lurking around the New York residence of the Iranian-American activist. Masih Alineyad.
