A ranar 14 ga watan Fabrairun 1989 ranar soyayya, da kuma ranar jana'izar abokinsa na kusa Bruce Chatwin's fatwā ordering Rushdie's execution was proclaimed on Radio Tehran by Ayatollah Khomeini, the spiritual leader of Iran at the time, calling the book "blasphus against Islam". (Chapter IV of the book depicts the character of an Imam in exile who holds Muhammad to be human, and in no way perfect. Ya yi iƙirarin cewa littafin ba "wani labari ne na adawa da addini ba. Duk da haka, ƙoƙari ne na rubuta game da ƙaura, da damuwa da sauye-sauyensa".
aka kai musu hari, aka ji musu rauni sosai, har ma aka kashe su