A spokesperson for Iran’s foreign ministry said the author and his supporters were culpable for that attack, and that freedom of speech didn’t justify Rushdie’s supposed slights on Islam in his work.
An Iranian official has denied that his country bears any responsibility for the brutal assault on Salman Rushdie in New York last week—despite its former supreme leader ordering his execution and putting a bounty on his head.
At a press briefing Monday, Nasser Kanaani, a spokesperson for Iran’s foreign ministry, said that Rushide and his supporters were culpable for that attack, and that freedom of speech didn’t justify Rushdie’s supposed slights on Islam in his work. “We categorically deny” any link to the suspect,
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