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

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The United States imposed sanctions on Friday on the 15 Khordad Foundation. The foundation offered a multimillion dollar bounty for the killing of Salman Rushdie. The U.S. Treasury Department said the foundation was linked to the death of the British-American author Rushdie, who died in 1989.

Published 3 months ago · Washington, United States

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Times of India

US sanctions Iranian group that put bounty on Salman Rushdie's life

Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the 15 Khordad Foundation, which issued a multimillion-dollar bounty for the killing of Rushdie. He wrote "The Satanic Verses," which some Muslims consider blasphemous. Rushdie's agent says the author has lost sight in one eye and the use of a hand as he recovers from an attack by a man who rushed the stage at the event in western New York.

3 months ago·Mumbai, India

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News18 India

U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Iran-based Foundation Over Salman Rushdie Bounty

The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement said it had designated the Iran-based 15 Khordad Foundation a Specially Designated Global Terrorist

3 months ago·India

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Reuters

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

The United States imposed sanctions on Friday on the 15 Khordad Foundation for offering a multimillion dollar bounty for the killing of British-American author Salman Rushdie, the U.S. Treasury Department said.

3 months ago·United Kingdom

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The Hindu

U.S. sanctions Iranian group that put bounty on author Salman Rushdie's life

Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the 15 Khordad Foundation, which issued a multimillion-dollar bounty for the killing of Salman Rushdie

3 months ago·India

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The Independent

US imposes sanctions on group behind Salman Rushdie bounty

The writer has been the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death.

3 months ago·London, United Kingdom

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Associated Press News

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. 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

3 months ago·United States

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