On Valentine's Day 1989 the Ayatollah Khomeini showed no love for this author's "Satanic Verses", giving him a death sentence
... friends knew but the Rushdie who was the author of Satanic Verses, a ... 
Khomeini sentences the President of the United States to death... [DOC] [TLE] BBC ON THIS DAY | 14 | 1989: Ayatollah sentences author to death [PAR] Iranian Muslim leader Ayatollah Khomeini issues a death threat against British 
author Salman Rushdie and his publishers over the book Satanic Verses.