'Can lastly exhale': Padma Lakshmi, Salman Rusdhie's ex spouse, on restoration | World News

Particulars and reactions are unraveling on a regular basis after the assault on writer Salman Rushdie final week in New York, United States, left the world in shock and horror. Rusdhie, 75, suffered grave stab wounds after he was attacked at a literary occasion in New York on Friday.

Amid a deluge of responses, Padma Lakshmi, Rusdhie’s former companion, mentioned she was “apprehensive and wordless” with the information however she might “lastly exhale” because the updates on his restoration emerged. “Relieved @SalmanRushdie is pulling by means of after Friday’s nightmare. Nervous and wordless, can lastly exhale. Now hoping for swift therapeutic. (sic),” she wrote in a tweet on Sunday.

Indian-American writer, TV host and mannequin, Padma Lakshmi, was married to Rushdie between 2004 and 2007. Laksmi can be the host of standard present ‘Prime Chef’. Rusdhie was taken off ventilator over the weekend amid broad considerations over his situation.

In the meantime, a 33-year-old Fatwa by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the previous Supreme Chief of Iran, got here again to public reminiscence following the assault on Rushdie.

The accused within the stabbing - Hadi Matar - is 24 years previous hails from New Jersey; he has pleaded not responsible.

Whereas anger has been expressed up to now over Rushdie’s ebook - the Satanic Verses - which pressured him into hiding after the so-called dying sentence, questions have been usually requested if these - who mentioned they have been resentful over the content material - even learn the ebook.

On Monday, Iran “categorically “ denied “any hyperlink with the assault”. “Nobody has the fitting to accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran", mentioned international ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani in Tehran's first official response to Friday's stabbing. "(Relating to) the assault on Salman Rushdie, we don't think about anybody apart from himself and his supporters worthy of ...reproach and condemnation," Kanaani instructed a information briefing.

(With inputs from Reuters)