The young man who yesterday put a muzzle that covered some of his face and pounced on the British writer Salman RushdieHadi Matar, 24, who was born to Muslim parents 75 years ago in India, and stabbed him in the neck and torso for the 20 seconds that preceded him giving a lecture on artistic freedom at the Chautauqua Institute of Literature in New York, is Hadi Matar, 24, who resides in New Jersey, according to what I mentioned. Al Arabiya is in breaking news.
And if Rushdie had not retreated when he was attacked and moved away from danger, according to what eyewitnesses said, the 22-year-old resident in the United States would have breathed his last, stabbed, but he survived and remained alive.
Tweet from Iranian nuclear negotiating team advisor Mohammad Marandi
In the first official Iranian position, the adviser to the Iranian nuclear negotiating team, Muhammad Marandi, expressed in a “Twitter” his surprise at the coincidence of the attack on Rushdie, the imminent revival of the nuclear agreement, and Washington’s thwarting an assassination attempt targeting the former National Security Adviser, John Bolton, and he said in the tweet: I won’t cry over a writer who spreads endless hatred and contempt for Muslims and Islam. An imperial pawn pretending to be a postcolonial novelist. But isn’t it strange that, as we approach a potential nuclear deal, the United States makes allegations of a strike on Bolton…and then that happens?” Below the tweet, he posted pictures of Rushdie, Bolton and Mike Pompeo, the former US Secretary of State.
Rushdie had published in 1988 a novel entitled “The Satanic Verses” that provoked angry reactions in the Islamic world, so Iran accused him of insulting the Prophet Muhammad and Islam, and a fatwa was issued a year after Ayatollah Khomeini to shed his blood, with a prize of 3 million dollars, added It received 500,000 in 2012 as an adjustment to its purchasing value, and to further incitement to kill him.