Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Saturday night condemned the attempted killing of Anglo-Indian Salman Rushdie the previous day in the United States as an attack on freedom and the result of years of incitement through the Iranian regime.
“The attack on Salman Rushdie is an attack on our freedoms and values. This is the result of decades of incitement through the extremist regime in Tehran,” Lapid tweeted Saturday night.
“On behalf of the other people of Israel, we wish them a full and speedy recovery. “
Vice Foreign Minister Idan Roll also denounced the Iranian regime after the attack on Rushdie at a convention in the town of Chautauqua, New York.
“Yesterday’s shocking attack on Salman Rushdie is further proof of the brutality and extremism of the Iranian regime, which has been persecuting and persecuting freethinkers for decades,” Roll said.
“Iran is a risk to the loose world,” he continued.
On behalf of the rest of the people of Israel, we wish them a speedy and full recovery.
– יאיר לפיד – Yair Lapid (@yairlapid) August 13, 2022
“Salman Rushdie, with his vision of humanity, with his unheard of sense of history, with his refusal to be intimidated or silenced, represents universal ideals. Truth. Courage. Resilience,” Biden said in a statement.
“We reaffirm our commitment to those deeply American values in solidarity with Rushdie and all those who protect free speech. “
In 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Iran’s ideal leader, issued an edict calling for Rushdie’s death after his publication of the novel “The Satanic Verses” in 1988. The e-book angered some Muslims over what they perceived as blasphemous content.
The edict was never lifted and there is still a reward for Rushdie’s murder. An earlier assassination attempt on Rushdie failed in London in 1989.
According to witnesses, Rushdie was sitting on the auditorium level and preparing to speak at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, when Matar jumped out of the audience and controlled to stab him several times before being thrown to the ground through staff and other onlookers. . Kill finally handcuffed and arrested.
Rushdie remained in serious condition and was put on a ventilator Saturday. According to his agent Andrew Wylie, the nerves in one of Rushdie’s arms were cut off and his liver was broken by the attack, and “he will most likely lose an eye. “
On Saturday, Matar was charged with attempted murder and assault, prosecutors said.
Also on Saturday, Labour MP Emilie Moatti denounced the attack and her birthday party in the Iranian press and on social media.
“The attempted assassination of writer Salman Rushdie is another attempt by extremist fanatics and enemies of humanity to raise their heads,” he said on Twitter. “The reports of rejoicing in Tehran are a stab in the heart of all who in the spirit of man. “
Yisrael Beytenu MK Yossi Shain also lamented the birthday party of the attack in Iran.
“The cries of happiness in Iran following the stabbing of Salman Rushdie are the direct continuation of the civil strife,” Shain tweeted. “The brutal attack on this man’s freedom is the result of a global poison that has seeped deep in here. “
Rushdie’s alleged attacker, a guy named Hadi Matar, was arrested at the scene and charged with attempted murder on Saturday.
Matar was born in the United States but his circle of relatives is from southern Lebanon.
The attack comes days after the U. S. Department of Justice(The U. S. Government announced last Wednesday that it had charged a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards over allegations that he came forward to pay $300,000 to an individual in the U. S. The U. S. department of homeland security to kill the former White House national security adviser. John Bolton.
Last month, a guy armed with an AK-47 rifle witnessed a raid on the home of Iranian journalist and critic of the Tehran regime Masih Alinejad in Brooklyn, New York.
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