US imposes sanctions on group behind Salman Rushdie bounty

Sir Salman Rushdie (Matt Crossick/PA)

The US has imposed sanctions on an Iran-based foundation which issued a multimillion dollar bounty for the killing of novelist Sir Salman Rushdie.

The 75-year-old Satanic Verses author, who was stabbed as he was about to give a lecture in New York this year, has been the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death.