The tried homicide of creator Salman Rushdie prompted social media customers, together with a number of members of Congress, to voice criticism of the Biden administration’s pursuit of a nuclear cope with Iran in gentle of the nation’s previous help of a fatwa towards Rushdie’s life.

“Iran has supplied a bounty to anybody who assassinates Salman Rushdie,” Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted on Friday. “Right this moment he was stabbed in America. Why is Biden nonetheless negotiating a ‘deal’ with these terrorists in Tehran?”

Rushdie was allegedly stabbed a number of instances by 24-year-old Hadi Matar earlier than a speech in Chautauqua, New York on Friday in an assault that severely injured the 75-year-old creator leaving him unable to talk and prone to lose an eye fixed.

The assault comes greater than 30 years after Iran’s late chief Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini known as for his loss of life in response to Rushdie’s ebook “The Satanic Verses” inflicting Rushdie to require around the clock safety at varied factors in his life.

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A number of others joined Rubio in calling out the Biden administration within the aftermath of the assault for working with the Iranian authorities on a nuclear deal.

“Iran’s leaders have been calling for the homicide of Salman Rushdie for many years,” Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton tweeted. “We all know they’re attempting to assassinate American officers at the moment. Biden wants to instantly finish negotiations with this terrorist regime.”

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“This White Home assertion on Salman Rushdie is appalling,” creator Gary Weiss stated in response to the White Home’s response to the assault. “No point out is manufactured from Iran placing a value on his head. Or that the fatwa was reaffirmed by the ayatollah in 2005 and in 2019. Is Joe Biden is THAT anxious to maneuver forward with the awful JCPOA?”

On this nonetheless picture from video, creator Salman Rushdie is taken on a stretcher to a helicopter for transport to a hospital after he was attacked throughout a lecture on the Chautauqua Establishment in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. 
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“The silence of @POTUS in response to the tried homicide of Salman Rushdie seems to be more and more the results of one factor:  A desperation to return to the Iran deal,” Basis for Protection of Democracies CEO Mark Dubowitz tweeted. “American desperation will increase regime aggression. It at all times has.”

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The White Home didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Fox Information Digital.

Iran’s authorities has seemingly distanced itself from Khomeini’s decree over time however a semi-official Iranian spiritual basis has voiced help for a bounty on Rushdie that exceeded $3 million.

Creator Salman Rushdie seems at a signing for his ebook “Residence” in London on June 6, 2017. 
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Following the stabbing, Iran state media condemned Rushdie as an “apostate” who was accountable for “blasphemous” writings.

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Moreover, Iranian information shops celebrated information of the assault because the hospitalized creator fought for his life on a ventilator.

A prime Iranian official stated that Tehran could also be keen to just accept a brand new proposal by the European Union to achieve a nuclear deal if its calls for are met, reviews stated Friday.

Tehran has beforehand demanded assurances from the U.S. that no future president might renege on the deal after former President Trump pulled out of the 2015 Joint Complete Plan of Motion (JCPOA) and slapped Iran with stiff sanctions. 

Fox Information’ Caitlin McFall contributed to this report.

An NFL participant helped cool off two followers combating within the crowd throughout a preseason occasion on Thursday.

The Carolina Panthers held “Fan Fest” at their Charlotte, North Carolina, stadium this previous week. The occasion included the soccer crew’s practices, a fireworks and laser present, and a DJ.

It’s unclear what began the struggle between followers on Thursday, however Panthers huge receiver D.J. Moore nonetheless jumped into the group to maintain the 2 calm.

Video from the group exhibits a person getting within the face of one other fan earlier than Moore seems from the sector.

“We at a household perform,” Moore stated.

A physique has been discovered within the seek for a person who obtained into bother in a lake in Doncaster, the police have mentioned.

The emergency companies attended the scene at Lakeside Lake on Saturday afternoon after receiving calls that the person, who was in his 20s, had obtained into problem, South Yorkshire Police mentioned.

The power mentioned: “We’re very sorry to report that following earlier details about an incident at Lakeside, Doncaster, a physique has now been discovered.”

Formal identification is but to happen, however the man’s household have been knowledgeable and are being supported by specialist officers.

A police aircraft had been sighted circling the lake for 20 minutes after the preliminary studies.

Specialist groups have been concerned within the seek for the person and South Yorkshire Police had requested the general public to keep away from the realm.

Greater than 20 individuals have misplaced their lives after moving into problem in water through the excessive warmth this summer time.

Temperatures exceeded 30C in lots of elements of England on Saturday.

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Within the UK, most deaths by drowning happen within the three summer time months, with July being the worst.

Final month Brian Sasu, 14, drowned off Tagg’s Island close to Hampton Courtroom in southwest London after taking a dip to chill off when his faculty closed early.

Robert Hattersley, 13, died within the River Tyne close to Ovingham, Northumberland. His household have been left “completely devastated”.

Final yr, 277 individuals died after drowning within the UK, up from 254 in 2020 and 233 in 2019.

A marketing campaign to stop drowning, known as Respect The Water, has been launched.

The Nationwide Water Security Discussion board, which is operating the initiative, goals to halve by 2026 the variety of individuals within the UK who by chance die within the water annually.