Iranians Renew Bounty on Rushdie

Staff -- Library Journal, 2/19/2001

Iranian extremists celebrated the 12th anniversary of the $2.5 million "fatwa" [bounty] on the head of Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie by renewing it with the claims that by relocating from Britain to the United States, the Indian-born author is providing an even better setting in which to be killed. In 1998, the Iranian government revoked its support of the bounty, but religious hard-liners have continued threats against Rushdie initiated by the late Ayatollah Khomeini.