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The US is imposing financial penalties on an Iranian-based organization that raised money to target British-American author Salman Rushdie, who was violently attacked in August at a literary event. The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the 15 Khordad Foundation, which issued a multimillion-dollar bounty for the killing of…

‘The United States condemns such incitement and the attack on Rushdie in the strongest terms as a blatant assault on freedom of speech and an act of terrorism’

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Novelist was stabbed around 12 times on stage at Chautauqua Institution two months ago

Salman Rushdie’s agent says the author has lost sight in one eye and the use of a hand as he recovers from an attack from a man who rushed the stage at an August literary event in western New York, according to a published report. Literary agent Andrew Wylie told…

The 75-year-old author, whose novel The Satanic Verses prompted calls for his death, was knifed in the neck and torso more than dozen times two months ago

Salman Rushdie lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand following an attack on stage at a literary event in western New York in August, his agent said.

Sir Salman was stabbed around 12 times on stage as he was due to deliver a lecture in New York in August