The Latest Breaking News from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

Maish Alinejad survived two assassination plots in as many years. She talks to Richard Hall about her work and living in safe houses.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fatwa against the author Salman Rushdie in 1989 made clear that the greatest threat to artists, intellectuals and journalists in the modern era comes from authoritarian states. In recent years, the latter have increasingly outsourced violence to murky non-state actors. This grim trend has been underscored by…

My Iranian friends take great pride in the enormous global influence of their cultural heritage. From the Taj Mahal in India to American greeting cards with quotations from Rumi, the markers of Persian civilization are ancient and modern, sublime and ridiculous — but above all, ubiquitous.

Hadi Matar pleaded not guilty through his lawyer

The man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in western New York said in an interview that he was surprised to learn the author had survived

Co-founder of City of Asylum, which offers safety, shelter and support to persecuted writers says they will not be impeded from doing what they set out to do

Street-side signs in the southern Lebanese village of Yaroun, the ancestral home of the suspect in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie, bear posters of Iran's former supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who in 1989 issued a fatwa calling for the author's death.

An Iranian government official has denied that Tehran was involved in the assault on Salman Rushdie, preferring to blame the attack on the author himself and his supporters.

Tehran also vehemently denied having any knowledge of or link to the stabbing of the novelist.