The United States government has levied sanctions on the Iranian group that funded a bounty on the life of author Salman Rushdie and called the August attack on him “an act of terrorism”.
The Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the 15 Khordad Foundation on Friday for having raised money it said was payable to anyone who could murder the British-American writer, who was targeted by then-Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini with a 1989 fatwa, a religious edict, calling for his death after publication of his acclaimed novel, The Satanic Verses.
