Iranian state media sets $600k bounty on Rushdie
Forty state-run Iranian media organisations have jointly announced a $600,000 bounty for killing British-Indian author Salman Rushdie. This comes just after the anniversary of the fatwa issued in 1989 by Iran's former leader Ayatollah Khomeini calling for Rushdie's death on charges of blasphemy for his book 'The Satanic Verses'. The author currently lives in the UK under police protection.