Iran Media Hail Attack on Salman Rushdie

This picture shows the front page of the Iranian newspaper Vatan-e Emrooz, with the front page title reading in Farsi: "Knife in the neck of Salman Rushdie", in the capital Tehran on August 13, 2022, a day after a man stabbed British author Salman Rushdie, the target of a 1989 Iranian fatwa calling for his death, during a literary event in New York state. (AFP)

Conservative Iranian media hailed on Saturday the attacker who stabbed novelist Salman Rushdie in New York on Friday.

Iran has yet to officially comment on the incident, but the Kayhan daily, whose editor-in-chief is appointed by the supreme leader, declared “a thousand salutes” to the brave man who attacked “the apostate and evil Salman Rushdie in New York.”