On Valentine's Day 1989 the Ayatollah Khomeini showed no love for this author's "Satanic Verses", giving him a death sentence
His 
second novel ... His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the subject of a 
major ... Death threats were made against him, including a fatw calling for his ... 
Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, on 14 February 1989.