Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was given a hero's welcome by supporters on his return to Tehran on Monday after winning the ...

Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed Salman Rushdie, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday, 16th May. The attack took ...

Rushdie, 77, has faced death threats since the 1988 publication of his novel The Satanic Verses, which Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Iran’s supreme leader, denounced as blasphemous ...

In 1989, Iran's then leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued the fatwa in response to the publication of Sir Salman's novel The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims consider blasphemous ...

By bnm Tehran bureau Tehran's interim Friday prayer leader declared Iran will continue uranium enrichment activities despite ...

One of the first Iranian novelists to write in English, she examined the clash between East and West. Her debut novel, ...

The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday. A ...

The 77-year-old Booker Prize-winning author gave evidence during the trial around the 2022 attack in New York.

Rushdie spent years in hiding with police protection after Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, in 1989 calling for his death over the alleged blasphemy of the ...

Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued the fatwa after publication of Rushdie's novel, “The Satanic Verses,” which some Muslims consider blasphemous. Rushdie spent years in hiding ...

Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued the fatwa after the publication of Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses," which some Muslims believe is blasphemous. Rushdie had to go into hiding ...