Tehran: Iran “categorically” denied Monday any hyperlink with the attacker who stabbed British author Salman Rushdie, creator of the unconventional “The Satanic Verses”, however blamed the author himself.

“We categorically deny” any hyperlink with the assault and “no person has the best to accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran,” stated overseas ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani in Tehran’s first reliable response to Friday’s stabbing.

“On this assault, we don’t believe any individual rather than Salman Rushdie and his supporters worthy of blame or even condemnation,” he stated at his weekly press convention in Tehran.

“Through insulting the sacred issues of Islam and crossing the purple traces of a couple of and a part billion Muslims and all fans of the divine religions, Salman Rushdie has uncovered himself to the anger and rage of the folk.”

Rushdie, 75, used to be left on a ventilator with more than one stab wounds after he used to be attacked at a literary tournament Friday in western New York state.

The prize-winning author had spent years beneath police coverage after Iranian leaders known as for Rushdie’s killing over his portrayal of Islam and the Prophet Mohammed within the novel.

The suspected assailant, 24-year-old Hadi Matar from New Jersey, used to be wrestled to the bottom via group of workers and different target audience individuals prior to being taken into police custody.

He used to be later arraigned in court docket and pleaded no longer in charge to tried homicide fees.

Iran’s then-supreme chief, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in 1989 issued a spiritual decree, or fatwa, ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie for what he deemed the blasphemous nature of “The Satanic Verses.”

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday stated Iranian state media had “gloated” concerning the assault, including that “that is despicable”.