Biden Takes a Powder in Face of Attempt To Carry Out Fatwa Against Rushdie

Iran might be pursuing a course of assassination rather than compromising on nuclear pact.

AP/Gene J. Puskar
Hadi Matar, 24, arrives for an arraignment at the Chautauqua County Courthouse August 13, 2022. AP/Gene J. Puskar

President Biden, in his eagerness to renew a nuclear deal that would enrich Tehran, is reacting with shocking slowness and passively to growing Iranian death threats against Americans, as well as to the stabbing Friday of the author Salman Rushdie, critics say. 

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