Two weeks before he was stabbed, Rushdie told German current affairs magazine Stern that "nowadays my life is very normal again", and that social media would have made his life "more dangerous, infinitely more dangerous" had it existed in the 1980s. In the years prior to the stabbing, Rushdie traveled without a security detail, and the Chautauqua festival where he was speaking was known for its "accessible" and "relaxed environment".
In 2017, however, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reaffirmed that the edict remained in effect, saying, "The decree is as Imam Khomeini issued." The bounty against Rushdie has never been lifted, though in 1998, the government of Iran looked to distance itself from the fatwa and pledged to cease the urge that it be carried out. The Execution of Imam Khomeini's Order set a US$3 million bounty on Rushdie, with the 15 Khordad Foundation offering to pay it. Ten days before, the book's Italian translator Ettore Capriolo was stabbed multiple times at his home in Milan.
Hitoshi Igarashi, who translated The Satanic Verses in Japanese, was stabbed to death in July 1991. Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran at the time, issued a 1989 fatwa calling for Rushdie's assassination, forcing Rushdie into hiding for several years. The Satanic Verses, his fourth novel, garnered critical acclaim as well as threats from hardliner Shia Muslims upon its 1988 publication. Rushdie had been living under threat of assassination since 1989. Main article: The Satanic Verses controversy law enforcement is investigating whether the assailant was in contact with other extremists. The government of Iran denied having foreknowledge of the stabbing, although state-controlled agencies of the Iranian media celebrated it. For years, Rushdie lived in hiding and took strict security measures which became more relaxed over time. Rushdie, an Indian-born British-American, was threatened with death in 1989, a year after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses, when the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for his assassination and set a bounty of $3 million for his death. Interviewer Henry Reese was also injured by the attacker.
Rushdie was gravely wounded and hospitalized. A 24-year-old suspect, Hadi Matar, was arrested at the scene, and was charged the following day with assault and attempted murder. On August 12, 2022, a man stabbed novelist Salman Rushdie multiple times as he was about to give a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, United States. Shia Islamic extremism (possible attempted realization of fatwa against Rushdie)
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