Editing Oxford University Press (section)

===Tehran Book Fair controversy===
In February 1989, Iran's [[Ruhollah Khomeini|Ayatollah Khomeini]] issued a fatwa urging the execution of British author Salman Rushdie and of all involved in the publication of his novel [[Satanic Verses controversy|''The Satanic Verses'']]. Rushdie went into hiding, and an international movement began to boycott book trading with Iran. There was, therefore, outrage when, in April 1989, OUP broke the worldwide embargo and chose to attend the [[Tehran International Book Fair|Tehran Book Fair]]. OUP justified this by saying, "We deliberated about it quite deeply but felt it certainly wasn't in our interests, or Iran's as a whole, to stay away."<ref>[http://www.akmedea.com/mullahsb.jpg quoted in "Such principled publishers", an article in The Bookseller, 5 May 1989]</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]''<ref>[http://www.akmedea.com/mullahs1.jpg 'Books for the Mullahs', ''The New York Times'', 27th April 1989]</ref> and ''[[The Sunday Times]]''<ref>[http://www.akmedea.com/mullahs2.jpg Norman Lebrecht and Ian Birrell, 'Anger over Iran book fair visits', The Sunday Times, 7th May 1989]</ref> both condemned Oxford's decision.