The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has warned France and the editors of Charlie Hebdo they may face the same fate as Salman Rushdie after more cartoons were published by the satirical magazine mocking Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader.
“I advise the French and directors of the Charlie Hebdo magazine to take a look at the fate of Salman Rushdie,” Major-General Hossein Salami said according to the Mehr news agency on Tuesday.
Rushdie has received death threats since the 1980s because of the controversy surrounding his book, The Satanic Verses. In August last year the author was stabbed in the neck at an event in New York.
“Do not play with Muslims, Salman Rushdie insulted the Quran and the holy Prophet of
