Iranian state media on Friday condemned writer Salman Rushdie, calling him an “apostate” and his writings “blasphemous” after the Indian-born author was once stabbed sooner than a speech in New York.

Rushdie was once stabbed in the neck by means of an attacker sooner than giving a speech on the Chautauqua Institution on Friday after dwelling for greater than 30 years underneath a fatwa calling for his dying issued by means of the Iranian ayatollah based on his e book “The Satanic Verses.”

The Islamic Republic News Agency, which described Rushdie as having been “attacked by means of knife,” referred to as him an “apostate writer.”

It additionally described “The Satanic Verses” as a “blasphemous novel about Islam.”

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Meanwhile, FARS News, any other regime-owned outlet, additionally described him as an “apostate” and accused him of getting “insulted the Prophet of Islam (PBUH)” with the e book’s “anti-religious content material.”

“The Satanic Verses” was once printed in 1988 and sparked violent protests around the globe from Muslims at what they seen as blasphemous writing. The fatwa was once issued in a while after in 1989. Rushdie has been an outspoken supporter and an emblem of freedom of expression in opposition to devout extremism — however has required around-the-clock safety.

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“It is loose speech that makes it conceivable for us to be loose other folks. Unfortunately, there are those that want us to not be loose, who would quite use the murderer’s veto to compel trust and silence dissent,” the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression informed Fox News Digital in a commentary following the assault on Rushdie. “Mr. Rushdie has lengthy understood loose speech’s necessity. He is amongst its most powerful advocates: ‘Free speech is the entire thing, the entire ball recreation.’”

The Iranian regime has stood by means of the fatwa, with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeting in 2019 that the fatwa “is in line with divine verses, and identical to divine verses, it’s forged and irrevocable.”

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The assault comes days after the Justice Department revealed charges in opposition to an Iran Revolutionary Guards Corp member for an alleged plot to kill former nationwide safety adviser John Bolton. The plot is thought to be in retaliation for the 2020 killing of IRGC Quds Forces Leader Qassem Soleimani, who was once taken out in an airstrike.

Fox News’ Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this record.