WATCH Salman Rushdie: "I have sympathy with the women of Iran"
"I have sympathy with the women of Iran, they have fought so hard."
Newsrael News Desk 19.05.2023
Salman Rushdie told Iran International's Maryam Rahmation on the sidelines of PEN America's gala.
Iranian writer Narges Mohammadi was awarded 2023 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award.
Source - Iran International/Twitter
The 75-year-old author, who received death threats from Iran in the 1980s after his novel The Satanic Verses was published, was stabbed in the neck and torso as he came on stage to give a talk on artistic freedom at the Chautauqua Institution on 12 August.
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