shari@wpi.wpi.edu (Shari Deiana VanderSpek) (02/13/90)
From UPI releases:
LONDON -- Britain expelled nine Iranians, reportedly for planning to
kill author Salman Rushdie, and put airports on full alert Friday after
U.S. warnings that terrorists may be planning violence to mark the 11th
anniversary of the Iranian revolution. The expulsions were swiftly
followed by a renewed death threat from Tehran against the author.
ATHENS, Greece -- Iran's new spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, apparently angered by the expulsion from Britain of nine
Iranians, renewed a call Friday for the death of British author Salman
Rushdie for writing a book Moslems consider blasphemous. Tehran radio
said Khamenei renewed the murder call during Friday prayer ceremonies in
the Iranian capital.