Top author says drop games, not bombs.
Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie believes Nintendo holds the key to bringing about ideological revolution in the conservative Islamic Republic of Iran.
The scribe, who famously went into hiding after Islamic extremists issued a fatwah following the publication of his allegedly blasphemous 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, told Big Think, “I often think that the best way to liberate Iran is just to drop Nintendo consoles from the air. And Big Macs.”
“If you look at the opponents of the Iranian regime, the green movement in Iran – that clearly represents a young, liberal, modernising spirit that exists in that country,” Rushdie explained.