Rushdie’s attacker allegedly sympathised with IRGC, extremists: Reports

New York:  Author Salman Rushdie’s alleged assailant Hadi Matar sympathised with an Iranian military organisation and sith extremists, according to media reports citing law enforcement sources.
During a preliminary review, Matar’s social media accounts showed he is “sympathetic to Shia extremism and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) causes”, NBC News said quoting a law enforcement source.
Matar stabbed Rushdie on August 13 in a New York education and spiritual centre as he was preparing to participate in a discussion on creative freedom in the US.
Rushdie was flown by a helicopter from the centre in Chautauqua to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he was put on a ventilator and underwent surgery for wounds to his neck, liver, arm and eye.
The Daily Mail reported on Sunday that the Indian-born author’s son Zafar said he has recovered enough to speak and was his “feisty and defiant” self.
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