Author Salman Rushdie has been attacked in Western New York.
Rushdie has been a target of Iran since his book, "The Satanic Verses," was released in 1988.
It was considered blasphemous by the Islamic Republic and the government put a three-million-dollar bounty on his head.
The attack occurred as he was about to give a lecture.
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