Salman Rushdie fatwa renewed
- Title
- Salman Rushdie fatwa renewed
- Genre
- News report
- TX Date
- 9 Feb 1990
- Year of production
- 1990
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- Duration
- 00:02:08
- Description
- Mike Theodoulou reports from Nicosia, Cyprus, on a renewal of the fatwa from Iran against author Salman Rushdie over his Satanic Verses novel by the new Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a possible resulting increase in terrorist violence and strained UK-Iran relations.
- Contributors
- Mike Theodoulou
- Keywords
- Books; Authors; Iran; Deportation; Terrorism; Writers; UK; International relations; Freedom of expression; Novels; Islam; Fiction; Cyprus; The Satanic Verses; Controversial literature; Fatwa; Salmon Rushdie; Nicosia; Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
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LBC/IRN, "Salman Rushdie fatwa renewed". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0001600554007 (Accessed 12 Oct 2025)