US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday announced new sanctions on the “15 Khordad Foundation” over the attack of author Salman Rushdie, due to the group putting a multimillion-dollar bounty on his head before the August stabbing.After the release of Rushdie’s novel “The Satanic Verses,” then-Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the author’s death and the “15 Khordad Foundation issued a bounty on Rushdie in support of Khomeini’s 1989 fatwa, and later, in 2012, increased the bounty,” Blinken said.Rushdie lost his sight in one eye and one of his hands was “incapacitated” following the stabbing attack in August, according to an interview given by his agent to a Spanish newspaper.Rushdie, 75, underwent emergency surgery after he was stabbed several times before his scheduled lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York on August 12.Staff members and guests then rushed onto the stage and held down the suspect, identified as 24-year-old Hadi Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, before a state trooper assigned to the event took him into custody, according to New York State Police."