The US is imposing monetary penalties on an Iranian-based organisation that raised cash to focus on British-American writer Salman Rushdie, who was violently attacked in August at a literary occasion.
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the 15 Khordad Foundation, which issued a multimillion-dollar bounty for the killing of Rushdie. He wrote “The Satanic Verses,” which some Muslims take into account blasphemous.
Rushdie’s agent says the writer has misplaced sight in a single eye and using a hand as he recovers from an assault by a person who rushed the stage on the occasion in western New York.
“The United States will not waver in its determination to stand up to threats posed by Iranian authorities against the universal rights of freedom of expression, freedom of religion or belief, and freedom of the press,” stated Brian Nelson, Treasury’s beneath secretary for terrorism and monetary intelligence.
“This act of violence, which has been praised by the Iranian regime, is appalling. We all hope for Salman Rushdie’s speedy recovery following the attack on his life.”
