The US Treasury announced today, Friday, the imposition of sanctions on the “15 Khadad” institution, an Iranian -based institution that offered a bonus of millions of dollars for those who kill the famous British American writer born in India Salman Rushdie.
Since February 1989, when Khomeini’s spirit of God declared a fatwa by spilling Rushdie’s blood, the Foundation of the Supreme Leader has given millions of cash to anyone wishing to assassinate him.
The Foundation has increased the incentive for finding the writer, though.
The United States will not tolerate the threats made by the Iranian government against the broad rights to freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and freedom of the press, according to Brian Nelson, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Affairs.
Salman Rushdie’s agent in India reported that after being attacked in the neck and trunk on August 12 while ascending to a platform at the Chautauqua Institute Hall for Literature in New York to deliver a lecture on artistic freedom, he lost vision in one eye and was no longer able to use one of his hands.
Hadi Matar, a Lebanese-American writer who was 24 years old and had previously received death threats from Iran in the 1980s after publishing his book The Satanic Verses or “Satanic Verses,” was unable to complete the day.
US sanctions against an Iranian institution; I called for the assassination of Salman Rushdie.
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