U.S. imposes sanctions on 15 Khordad Foundation over Salman Rushdie bounty

US Sanctions Iranian Group that Put Bounty on Rushdie’s Life

The US is imposing financial penalties on an Iranian-based organization that raised money to target British-American author Salman Rushdie, who was violently attacked in August at a literary event. The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control san

US sanctions Iranian group that put bounty on Rushdie’s life

Move comes months after British-American author was violently attacked at a literary event, losing sight in one eye and the use of a hand

US Announces New Sanctions on Iran for Bounty on Rushdie

The U.S State and Treasury departments announced Friday the United States is imposing economic sanctions on the Iran-based 15 Khordad Foundation for issuing a multimillion-dollar bounty on author Salman Rushdie, which led to an attack on him in August. In 1989, following the publication of Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims found blasphemous, then-Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the autho…

US imposes sanctions on Iran foundation over Salman Rushdie attack

Writer recovering after losing sight in one eye in assault at western New York literary event

US sanctions Iranian entity for attack on Salman Rushdie

The U.S. has sanctioned an Iranian entity responsible for issuing a bounty on Salman Rushdie in response to the attack on the author in August. Both the State Department and the Department of the Treasury issued statements announcing the designation of 15 Khordad Foundation as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist”. In a statement on Friday,…

US sanctions Iranian group for placing multimillion-dollar bounty on Salman Rushdie’s life

Two months after Salman Rushdie was attacked onstage, the U.S. government imposed sanctions on the 15 Khordad Foundation for promising $3.3 million to anyone who killed the novelist.