Iranian Media Have Pooled Funds To Increase The Bounty On Salman Rushdie’s Head

“Forty state-run media outlets in Iran have pooled together to raise $600,000 to add to the fatwa on writer Salman Rushdie, 27 years after Iran’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, called for Rushdie’s assassination following the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses.”

source ArtsJournal http://ift.tt/1oGVpni

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