Iranian Nights

A Channel Four special presentation of the Royal Court Theatre 1989 production London with Paul Bhattacharjee Nabil Shaban and Fiona Victory Iranian Nights was a play written and produced as a direct response by writers and artists to the notorious Feb 14 1989 Fatwa a sentence of death from Irans leader Ayatollah Khomeini placed on Salman Rushdie for his novel The Satanic Verses regarded by fundamentalist Muslims as blasphemous