Teverson spotted the light that Khattam-Shud could be Khomeini in Rushdie’s novel. As he stated in “fairy Tale politics: Free speech and multi culturalism in Haroun and the sea of stories”, “Haroun, in this capacity, is not only a vindictive cry against Khomeini and a pedantic, ill-theorized insistence on the right to say what we want when we want,” (Teverson.462) Teverson was the novel was written to be a weapon against Khomeini and to prove for Khomeini that you can’t control us under the censorship umbrella. I think he was completely right because back to the novel Rushdie says in Haroun and the sea of stories "The world, however, is not for Fun.... The world is for Controlling." (161) Rushdie used this metaphor That Khomeini and Khattam-shud