Iran issues bounty on Rushdie

The bounty was offered by the Tehran-based Organisation to Commemorate the Martyrs of the Muslim World, which said it would pay an award of pound; 80,000 reward to anyone 8220;who was able to execute the apostate Salman Rushdie8221;.

Rushdie spent a decade under the threat of an Islamist death sentence after his book The Satanic Verses was deemed blasphemous for its irreverent depiction of the Prophet.

The same day, Pakistan summoned the UK envoy to the Foreign Office to convey its resentment over the honour bestowed on Rushdie.