The man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in western New York reportedly said in an interview that he was surprised to learn Rushdie had survived the attack.
Iran has denied involvement in the attack. Matar said he hadn't had any contact with Iran's Revolutionary Guard. He told the Post he had only read "a couple pages" ofRushdie, 75, suffered a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye, according to his agent, in the attack Friday.
Matar was born in the U.S. but holds dual citizenship in Lebanon, where his parents were born. His mother has told reporters in interviews that Matar came back changed from a visit to see his father in Lebanon in 2018. After that, he became moody and withdrew from his family, she said.The fatwa on Salman Rushdie, 3 decades later
The writer Salman Rushdie is still recovering in hospital from a brutal attack at a literary event last Friday. A young man rushed onstage and stabbed Rushdie nearly a dozen times, leaving him with injuries so severe he may lose an eye. While Rushdie himself has never been attacked like this before, this isn't the first attempt on his life. He has been targeted by death threats ever since the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie's death in 1989.
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