Iran's hard-line Revolutionary Guards declared on Saturday that the death sentence passed against British writer Salman Rushdie was irreversible and said Muslims would one day carry it out. The Guards were marking the anniversary of the 1989 fatwa pronounced against Rushdie by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who considered his novel "The Satanic Verses" blasphemous. "This statement, while stressing the irrevocability of the death verdict against Salman Rushdie, says history shows that the Muslims have in no era accepted their sanctities being defiled," they said in a statement faxed to Reuters.
"The day will come when the Muslims take retribution for apostate Salman Rushdie's transgression against the holy Quran and the Prophet Mohammad," it added.
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