Iran's rulers bear responsibility for the attack against the British writer Salman Rushdie as the Islamic republic never repudiated a 1989 order issued by its founder calling for the novelist to be killed,…
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Activists, opposition groups note Iranian supreme leader has reiterated support for Khomeini's fatwa calling to kill author, say $3 million bounty on his life remains on offer