Rushdie\'s Attacker Allegedly Sympathised With Iranian Military Organisation, Extremists: Reports

His attacker is said to have sympathized with Iranian military organization Extremists, a military organisation: reports

New York, Aug 15 : Author Salman Rushdie’s suspected assailant Hadi Matar was in a relationship with an Iranian military organization and sith extremists according to media reports that cite police sources.
In a preliminary examination, Matar’s social media profiles indicated he has been “sympathetic to Shia extremism and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) causes”, NBC News said quoting an official from the law enforcement agency.

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Matar attacked Rushdie on the 13th of August in the New York education and spiritual center as he was about to take part in an open discussion on freedom of creativity in the US.

Rushdie was transported by helicopter from the center in Chautauqua to the hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he was placed on a ventilator.He also underwent surgery to treat wounds to his neck arm, liver, and eye.

The Daily Mail reported on Sunday that the son of the writer born in India Zafar stated that he is now able to talk and is his “feisty and feisty” self.

The death of IRGC Major General Qasem Soleimani with the US drone strike close to Baghdad could have been the motivation for the attack

ABC News reported that photos of Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al Muhandis, the leader of Iraq’s pro-Iranian militia who was killed in the drone attack, were discovered on Matar’s cell phone.

IRGC is an arm of the Iranian military, which operates both in the country as well as internationally, including in Iraq as well as Syria.

Matar’s deep-seated sympathies with the Shia terrorist group pro-Iranian police discovered an unauthentic New Jersey driver’s license with the name “Hassan Mughniyah,” but with Matar’s photograph as reported by ABC News.

Ayatollah Khomeini who died in the role of the Iranian Supreme Leader, issued a death warrant on Rushdie in 1989 due to the content of his book, “Satanic Verses”, which he considered to be blasphemous.

Iranian groups have placed an offer of more than $3 million for Rushdie.

There has been no official response to the attacks on Rushdie the advisor to the Iranian negotiators on an agreement on nuclear, Seyed Mohammad Marandi, tweeted: “I won’t be shedding tears for a writer who spews incessant hatred and disdain for Muslims and Islam.A Pawn of empire, who tries to portray himself as an author of Postcolonial writer.”

In an attempt to dissociate his own regime from Matar, he also asserted that it was “odd” that “this occurs” in the context of the US as well as the other permanent members of the UN Security Council, Germany and the European Union were near a possibility of a deal to revive the accord that the former president Donald Trump had junked to limit Iran’s nuclear program in exchange to lifting sanctions on it.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, Matar’s mother Silvana Fardos suggested he was likely to have been radicalised during a trip to Middle East

Following a trip to Lebanon from where his parents came, Fardos found Matar “was becoming more religious and he would criticize her for not providing him with an orthodox Muslim education” according to the Daily Mail said.

Their house in Fairwood in New Jersey located about 50 kilometers away from New York City, was searched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who took books and computers, as well as a Playstation and knives she said.

Fardos said that after he returned from a trip to Lebanon to visit his father who she divorced, the once-outgoing and well-known Matar was now a “moody introvert” and was locked in the basement, refusing to allow them in.

Matar was born in the US and was raised in Cudahy in Los Angeles.

Fardos stated: “I don’t care about politics I’m not religious.I was born as a Muslim and that’s about it.I didn’t force my children to be religious or make him do anything.”

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