Iran ‘categorically’ denies any link to Salman Rushdie’s assailant

The 75-year-old British and American intellectual is no longer on life support and “the road to recovery has begun”, welcomed his agent Andrew Wylie in a press release sent to the “Washington Post”.

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Iran has denied “categorically”, Monday, August 15, any connection with the assailant who stabbed the British writer Salman Rushdie, author of the satanic verses. “No one has the right to accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran”said Nasser Kanani, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the first official reaction of this country after the attack.

Salman Rushdie is a little better according to his relatives. The 75-year-old British and American intellectual is no longer on life support and “the road to recovery has begun”welcomed his agent Andrew Wylie in a statement sent to the washington post.

His attacker, Hadi Matar, born in the United States, living in New Jersey and whose parents are from a village in southern Lebanon, was charged with “attempted murder and assault”. Without giving a motive, prosecutors called the attack premeditated.


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