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Sun 06 Jun 2007Iran hits out at Rushdie honourIran accused Britain today of insulting Islam by awarding a knighthood to Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant for him.The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Rushdie, awarded for services to literature in Queen Elizabeth's birthday honours list published yesterday, was "one of the most hated figures" in the Islamic world.