The Iranian foundation that has offered more than $2 million for author Salman Rushdie's head is sponsoring an "anti-Rushdie seminar," Tehran radio reported Saturday.
The broadcast, monitored in Nicosia, said the 15 Khordad Foundation's seminar would be held in Tehran, but it gave no date.On Feb. 14, 1989, Iran's late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said Rushdie should be killed for defaming Islam in his novel, "The Satanic Verses."
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The 15 Khordad Foundation offered a $1 million bounty to anyone who killed Rushdie. Last year, it said it had increased the bounty to more than $2 million.