Iran Denies Involvement But Justifies Salman Rushdie S Attack
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – An Iranian official denied on Monday that Tehran was involved in the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie, although he tried to justify the attack in the Islamic Republic’s first public comments on the bloodshed. The statements by Nasser Kanaani, a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, came three days after Rushdie was injured in New York state. The writer has been taken off a ventilator and is “on the road to recovery,” according to his agent....