] Iran's hard-line Revolutionary Guards have declared the ] death sentence on British author Salman Rushdie is still ] valid - 16 years after it was issued. ] ] ] The military organisation, loyal to Iran's supreme leader ] - said the order was "irrevocable" on the eve of the ] anniversary of the 1989 fatwa. later in the article ]The guards' statement comes a month after Ayatollah Khomeini's ]successor Ayatollah Khamenei said he still believed the British ]novelist deserved to die. ]"They talk of respect for all religions but they support an ]apostate worthy of death like Rushdie," he said. Tolerence clearly should mean kill, kill, kill. Burn the heretics. Ahhhh the hardliners on both sides. I LOVE 'EM. BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iran adamant over Rushdie fatwa |