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Banned Iran Books

The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)

Banned as blasphemous; in 1989 Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the author's death.

Status
Banned
Country
Iran
Category
Books
Banned since
1988

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