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Assassins of the Turquoise Palace

His captors told him that the Ayatollah would spare him only if he’d undo his sin by translating the book back into English. Today, some scholars argue that the retranslated version is a major improvement on Rushdie’s original. —Hadi Khorsandi, exiled Iranian satirist Day after day, Bruno Jost po...