Iran threatens boycott over Rushdie's Frankfurt invite
The Iranian regime called for a fatwa against Salman Rushdie in 1988 (AFP Photo/)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran has threatened to boycott next week's Frankfurt Book Fair because organisers have invited the author Salman Rushdie, who still has a fatwa against him, as a guest speaker. Rushdie, a British citizen who now lives in the United States, was made subject of the fatwa -- a religious edict that called for his killing -- in 1988, when his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, was published. The Islamic republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah ...
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