Was Iran Behind Attempt to Kill Salman Rushdie in America?

The shocking attempt to murder writer Salman Rushdie last Friday in New York wasn’t just a criminal attack on the author but probably also an Iranian-inspired (and possibly Iranian-directed) act of terrorism. Rushdie, after publishing the controversial 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses,” was targeted for death in a fatwa (or Islamic edict) issued in February 1989 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader of Iran’s Islamic revolution. 

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