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Salman Rushdie stabbing: Iran denies being involved in attack
Salman Rushdie stabbing: An Iranian government official denied on Monday that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie, in remarks that were the country’s first public comments on the attack.
Nasser Kanaani, the spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry, made the remarks in a briefing to journalists.
“Nobody has right to accuse Iran in this regard.”
Rushdie, 75, was stabbed Friday while attending an event in western New York. He suffered a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye, his agent said. He was likely to lose the injured eye.
The award-winning author for more than 30 years has faced death threats for “The Satanic Verses.”
An Iranian foundation had put up a bounty of over $3 million for the author.