In 2017, a statement was published on the official website of the current supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, stating that "the decree is as Imam Khomeini (ra) issued" and in February 2019, the Khamenei.ir Twitter account stated that Khomeini's verdict was "solid and irrevocable". However, a fatwa cannot be revoked in Shia Islamic tradition. The Iranian government has changed its support for the fatwa several times, including in 1998 when Mohammad Khatami said the regime no longer supported it. The affair had a notable impact on geopolitics when, in 1989, Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie. It included numerous killings, attempted killings (including against Rushdie himself), and bombings by perpetrators who supported Islam. It centered on the novel's references to the Satanic Verses of the Quran, and came to include a larger debate about censorship and religious violence. The Satanic Verses controversy, also known as the Rushdie Affair, was a controversy sparked by the 1988 publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. Khomeini (in 1989), then Supreme Leader of Iran who issued the fatwa
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