After Salman Rushdie Attack, Iranian-American Dissident Masih Alinejad Is on the Run Again

“I’m a lonely soldier now,” she tells WaxWord, from her third safe house in two weeks

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(inset) Salman Rushdie; Masih Alinejad (Getty Images)

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As Salman Rushdie recovers from a brazen murder attempt last Friday, the Iranian author and dissident Masih Alinejad wonders about her own future. 

Now living in her third safe house in three weeks – with the latest she’d just been whisked to by the FBI when I called her on Wednesday – Alinejad is shaken, as well she should be.

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