Iran cleric says Rushdie death fatwa still valid
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The death sentence fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie by Iran&#39;s revolutionary leader 18 years ago is still valid and will remain so, a leading cleric said on Friday following Britain&#39;s knighting of the controversial author.
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QOM, Iran -- These are pilgrims of a different kind. Several times a week, Shi'ite Muslim clerics and community leaders from neighboring Iraq climb stairs to a little office in this Iranian city of shrines and Islamic seminaries. There, an aged and hunched figure sits on a swivel chair fitted with an electric blanket.
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Iran accused Britain on Sunday of insulting Islam by awarding a knighthood to Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant for him.
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Escorted by his bodyguards, Iranian senior conservative cleric, Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani, foreground left, leads a Friday prayer, the day before holy month of Ramadan at the Tehran University campus in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Oct. 15, 2004.
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Iran's hardline Revolutionary Guards said Salman Rushdie still faced eventual execution, 16 years after revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini imposed a death sentence on the novelist.
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TEHRAN -- Iran accused Britain yesterday of insulting Islamic values by knighting Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant against him.
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PARIS : Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is still alive but &quot;in the hands of God,&quot; the Palestinian representative in France Leila Shahid said Wednesday.
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Iran's foreign ministry criticises Britain for giving a knighthood to the author Salman Rushdie.
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The celebration of the birthday of Imam Mahdi, the savior of the Shiite faith, is receiving plenty of attention from the government of Iran.
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The Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr remained in control of a holy shrine here on Saturday in defiance of the Iraqi government, even as his aides said they were making
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Pakistani Islamic scholars honoured Osama bin Laden in response to Britain&#39;s knighthood for Salman Rushdie, as a senior ruling party member said he would not hesitate to kill the novelist.
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Al-Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri said on Tuesday the group is preparing a &quot;precise response&quot; to Britain&#39;s decision to bestow a knighthood on author Salman Rushdie.
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CAMBRIDGE -- Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami said yesterday that he was satisfied with the progress he made toward expanding freedom in Iran during his eight years at the helm --and he asserted that Iran is still heading toward democracy.
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An influential Iranian cleric, in a new  blast against Tehran's arch-enemy, told Washington on Friday it  cannot stop Iran pursuing nuclear technology and should not  attempt a military "adventure" in the country.
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NAJAF: Fighters loyal to rebel Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were firmly in control of the sacred Imam Ali mosque in Najaf and surrounding streets, a Reuters correspondent said.
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Angry Islamists protested against Britain&#39;s knighthood for Salman Rushdie Friday, as an Iranian cleric said the death sentence on the writer was still valid 18 years on.
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An adviser to the Iraqi PM says radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr is in Iran, but says he will be back soon.