Comments by "" (@DanielSMatthews) on "Salman Rushdie repeatedly stabbed on stage in New York" video.

  1. In 1989 a fatwā ordering Rushdie's execution was proclaimed on Radio Tehran by Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme leader of Iran. In 2005, Khomeini's fatwā was reaffirmed by Iran's current spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards declared that the death sentence on him is still valid. In February 1997, Ayatollah Hasan Sane'i, leader of the bonyad panzdah-e khordad (Fifteenth of Khordad Foundation), reported that the blood money offered by the foundation for the assassination of Rushdie would be increased from $2 million to $2.5 million. In 1998, Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami proclaimed the fatwa "finished"; but it has never been officially lifted, and in fact has been reiterated several times by Ali Khamenei and other religious officials. Yet more money was added to the bounty in February 2016. Given the above it is clear that the 10 for 1 rule now applies to the Iranian leadership clique, particularly the top level of the Revolutionary Guards.
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