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Conservative sectors of Iran react to the attack against Salman Rushdie: “Satan is on his way to hell”


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The authorities have not made an official statement on what happened.

Front pages of the Iranian press.Vahid SalemiAP
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“Satan is on his way to hell.” The first page of the newspaper ‘Jorasan’, the doyen of the country’s newspapers, left no doubt about how the attack against the writer Salman Rushdie has been received in some Iranian sectors. since in February 1989 Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa (religious decree) against the novelist for “blasphemy”, Rushdie is one of the ‘black beasts’ of the most reactionary Iran.

The conservative newspaper ‘Keyhan’, which is considered close to the theses of the current supreme guide, Ali Khamenei, was full of praise for the attack and launched “100 blessings from God” for the author of the aggression, according to the Efe news agency.

The British writer born in India received several stab wounds when he was about to give a lecture in New York. A 24-year-old man, identified as Hadhi Matar, who is presumed to be a sympathizer of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, has been arrested as the author of the attack. His motivations are not known for now.

The political and religious authorities have opted for prudence and at this time have not made any statements about what happened. In social networks, some sectors have reacted by celebrating the attack and have shared a proclamation of the Ayatollah Khamenei stating that the fatwa against Rushdie “was the firing of a bullet that will not stop until it reaches its target”.

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When Rushdie published his book ‘The Satanic Verses’, many Muslims considered it an insult to the Prophet Muhammad and the Koran. It was banned in countries like India, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and South Africa. On February 14, 1989, Ayatollah Ruhol Khomeini, issued a fatwa that would mean a death sentence for the writer. “I would like to inform the proud Muslims of the world that the author of the book ‘The Satanic Verses’, who is contrary to Islam, the Prophet and the Koran, as well as those involved in its publication aware of its content, have been sentenced to death. death”. The Iranian leader ended up asking “all Muslims to execute them” and offered a juicy reward.

The Muslim world was ablaze with protests against the book and Rushdie lived for years protected by bodyguards in fear for his life. When he became president of Iran in the late 1990s, the moderate Mohammad Khatami, his Government moved away from the edict promulgated by Khomeini. He had already died and was succeeded by Ali Khamenei who, however, never renounced the fatwa. The supreme guide, the true authority in Iran above the government, ratified the sentence in 2017. “The decree continues as Khomeini issued it,” he said then, to reconfirm it two years later as “irrevocable.”

In the absence of Khamenei himself ruling now on an issue that he has wanted to keep alive and on its consequences, one of the advisers to the country’s nuclear negotiating team, Seyed Mohammad Marandi, has expressed himself thus: “I am not going to shed a single tear for a writer who has spread hatred towards Muslims and Islam”. However, he questioned the motives for the attack at a time when Iran is making progress in talks to resurrect the deal on its 2015 atomic program. an attack on Bolton [el asesor de Seguridad Nacional de Trump] and now this [en referencia al atentado contra Rushdie]On Wednesday, the US accused an Iranian citizen of trying to assassinate Trump’s ally.

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Keyvan Saedy, guru of Iranian conservatism, expressed on Twitter: “This deserves congratulations: With the will of God, we will celebrate that Salman Rushdie will go to hell soon”, according to the British newspaper ‘Daily Mail’. Another social media activist along the same lines, Hossein Saremi, described his own version of events stating that “a lion” attacked Rushdie and that Matar is one of the “soldiers of Islam”. He ended his diatribe with this statement: “Revenge may be delayed, but it is inevitable.”

Some accounts linked to the Revolutionary Guarda branch of the Iranian Armed Forces with vast political and economic power and linked to Khamenei, also expressed sympathy for Hadi Matar.

Reactions also occurred against with equal or greater force. The Iranian activist Athena Daemiwho has recently been released from prison after being sentenced to five years for criticizing death executions, has expressed his rejection of the attack and has accused the Ayatollahs’ regime of committing “crimes throughout the planet,” according to Efe.

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