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The war in Ukraine is helping one country achieve its foreign policy and national security objectives, but it’s neither Russia nor Ukraine.

Rushdie’s alleged attacker, Hadi Matar, was due in court to face attempted murder and assault charges.

Iran's rulers bear responsibility for the attack against the British writer Salman Rushdie as the Islamic republic never repudiated a 1989 order issued by its founder calling for the novelist to be killed, activists and opponents charged Saturday. While the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini over Rushdie's novel "The…

Praise for attack on writer targeted by decades-old fatwa comes as some fear incident will leave Iran more isolated

Sir Salman has been the subject of a 'fatwa' since the 1980s

Indian-born British author Sir Salman Rushdie's 1980s novel The Satanic Verses led to a fatwa in Iran calling for his death sanctioned by the government in the country

Iranians are reacting with praise and worry over the attack on novelist Salman Rushdie — the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death

Iranian officials now speak openly about something long denied by Tehran as it enriches uranium at its closest-ever levels to weapons-grade material: The Islamic Republic is ready to build an atomic weapon at will