And those countries also banned that book. Apart from this, in 1989, Iran had publicly announced a US$ 3 million bounty on Salman Rushdie’s head.
Since then there have been several assassination attempts on Salman Rushdie. Rushdie, who luckily survived all of them, has now been attacked again.
Salman Rushdie met the media after participating in literary events held on the 13th night in New York City, USA. Just then an unidentified person in a black dress ran towards Rushdie who was sitting on the stage with a black mask on his face. In the blink of an eye, the man stabs Salman Rushdie blindly with a knife.
Rushti, who was immediately admitted to the hospital’s intensive care unit, has been weaned off the ventilator and is still in the ICU. The doctors have said that his liver has been damaged in the stabbing and his optic nerve is severed and he is likely to lose sight in one eye.
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In this situation, the Iranian government has given its own explanation regarding the murderous attack on Salman Rushdie. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has explained that ‘the attack on writer Salman Rushdie in New York has nothing to do with the government of Iran’.
It is noteworthy that the novel ‘Midnight’s Children’ written by Salman Rushdie, a citizen of both the United States and Britain, won England’s highest award, the Booker Prize, in 1981.