Exchange of accusations between Iran and the US on Rushdie's injury. And the campaign to give him the Nobel begins

It is a

, which has been going on for at least 24 hours, between Iran and the United States regarding the "moral responsibility" of the

, the Indian author of the

stabbed last Friday during a literary festival in the state. from New York.

Latest in chronological order, the statements of the spokesman for the US State Department,

, who called

the words of his Iranian counterpart, Naser Kanani, "

.

In fact, at a press conference, Price said that "to blame the victim, Salman Rushdie, for this attack, is something deplorable, it is repugnant, we condemn it".

The US official recalled that

in the threats received by the Indian writer following the publication of his most controversial novel and called

for the violent aggression.

In the morning, Tehran's decisive refusal to accept any link with the attack on the perpetrator had arrived.

"

"no one has the right to accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran," said the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry.

This morning was the first official reaction to last Friday's stabbing.

The response of the Iranian authorities followed what was declared last night by US Secretary of State

, who

explicitly

Iran of

at least

the gesture: "Iranian institutions have incited violence against the writer for years and the state media in recent days have rejoiced for the attack against him.

All this is despicable ”.

“We must ensure that the author of the

is awarded the highest of honors.

We must ensure that, in the name of all of him and in his name, this year, or in a few weeks,

.

I cannot imagine, today, any other writer who has the audacity to deserve it more than him ”writes the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy in an article in the newspaper

.