Salman Rushdie: Do the US and UK need to change relations with Iran?

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🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The British-Indian writer who has faced death threats for his novel The Satanic Verses, was stabbed on Friday while on stage at an event in New York state. In 1989, Iran's then leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, that has remained ever since, calling for Sir Salman's death.

On the Sky News Daily with Chloe Culpan, Sky's correspondent in the US, David Blevins, reports from outside the hospital where Sir Salman is being treated, and US foreign affairs analyst Robin Wright examines what the attack means for US and UK relations with Iran.

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0:42.3	Hello, pharmacist will see you now.
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0:52.3	NHS 111. Call, go online or use the NHS app to be assessed and directed to the right place for you.
1:02.0	And the danger to you, which obviously you've written about previously, is that over now?
1:06.0	The fact of the fact world?
1:08.0	Seems to be pretty much okay, thank you.
1:09.0	Yes, I take the subway like anyone else.
1:11.8	And no need for protection. No, not really.
1:15.0	Why do you think that stopped, given that there's so much...
1:18.3	You know, the world moves on. The world moves on. There's other subjects now.
1:22.8	That's the author Salman Rushdie in 2017 on Sky News, talking about the years of death threats and living
1:29.9	in hiding because of his book, Satanic Verses.
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