Salman Rushdie was attacked at New York’s Chautauqua Institution on Friday (August 12) morning (in the United States) by a 24-year-old man called Hadi Matar. The author has been put on a ventilator in hospital, he is unable to speak, the nerves in his arms have been “severed”, his liver has been “stabbed and damaged”, and he might lose an eye, his agent told reporters.
Matar, 24, is a resident of Fairview, New Jersey, a state neighboring New York. He was born in the United States to Lebanese parents who emigrated from Yaroun in southern Lebanon, the mayor of Yaroun, Ali Tehfe, told The Associated Press and Reuters. NBC News reported that an analysis of Matar’s social media accounts by law enforcement showed him to be sympathetic to Shia extremism and the causes of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an ideologically-driven branch of the Iranian armed forces committed to protecting the country’s Islamic system from hostile foreign powers and internal dissensions.
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