Nevertheless, Iran has denied finishing up different operations overseas focusing on dissidents within the years because the nation’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, regardless of prosecutors and Western governments attributing such assaults again to Tehran.
“We, within the incident of the assault on Salman Rushdie within the U.S., don’t take into account that anybody deserves blame and accusations besides him and his supporters,” Kanaani mentioned. “No one has proper to accuse Iran on this regard.”
Rushdie, 75, was stabbed Friday whereas attending an occasion in western New York. He suffered a broken liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye fixed, his agent mentioned. He was more likely to lose the injured eye.
His assailant, 24-year-old Hadi Matar, has pleaded not responsible to costs stemming from the assault by way of his lawyer.
The award-winning writer for greater than 30 years has confronted loss of life threats for “The Satanic Verses.” Iran’s late Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had issued a fatwa, or Islamic edict, demanding his loss of life. An Iranian basis had put up a bounty of over $3 million for the writer.
Kanaani added that Iran didn’t “have another data greater than what the American media has reported.”
The West “condemning the actions of the attacker and in return glorifying the actions of the insulter to Islamic beliefs is a contradictory angle,” Kanaani mentioned.
