Iran denies involvement in Salman Rushdie attack in first public comment

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : An Iranian government official denied on Monday that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie, in remarks that were the country's first public comments on the attack.
34% : "Nobody has right to accuse Iran in this regard."
33% : Kanaani added that Iran did not "have any other information more than what the American media has reported."The West "condemning the actions of the attacker and in return glorifying the actions of the insulter to Islamic beliefs is a contradictory attitude," Kanaani said.
18% : However, Iran has denied carrying out other operations abroad targeting dissidents in the years since the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution, despite prosecutors and Western governments attributing such attacks back to Tehran.

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