WORLD : U.K. Links Iran Relations to Threat
Iran must withdraw the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s death edict against author Salman Rushdie before relations between Tehran and London can return to normal, Britain said today.
“We shall be looking to Iran to renounce publicly the use or threat of the use of terrorism and violence,” a Foreign Office spokesman said.
Rushdie has been in hiding under police guard since Khomeini’s order last February. Iran broke diplomatic ties with Britain last March in the furor that followed Khomeini’s call on Muslims to kill Rushdie because his novel, “The Satanic Verses,” blasphemed Islam.
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