{"id":2019447,"date":"2023-09-01T14:41:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-reportedly-looking-into-iran-ties-of-salman-rushdies-stabber\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T14:42:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:42:24","slug":"justice-department-reportedly-looking-into-iran-ties-of-salman-rushdies-stabber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-reportedly-looking-into-iran-ties-of-salman-rushdies-stabber\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Dept. reportedly investigating Iran links of Rushdie&#8217;s attacker."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjustice-department-reportedly-looking-into-iran-ties-of-salman-rushdies-stabber%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2019447&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Hadi Matar:\u2062 Investigated for Stabbing Salman Rushdie<\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>Hadi Matar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney\u2019s \u2063Office is reportedly investigating whether\u2062 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reports-red-flag-laws-result-in-66-firearm-confiscations\/\" title=\"Reports: Red flag laws result in 66 firearm confiscations\">man accused<\/a> of stabbing British author Salman Rushdie last\u200c year had ties to an Iranian terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>Hadi Matar was arrested on August 12, 2022, \u200bfor allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/why-the-iranians-want-salman-rushdie-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stabbing<\/a> Rushdie, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/plot-against-the-president-director-amanda-millius-working-on-john-mcafee-film\/\" title=\"'Plot Against the President' Director Amanda Millius Working on John McAfee Film\">award-winning author<\/a>\u2062 whose \u200d1988 novel <em>The Satanic Verses<\/em> earned him a fatwa from Iran, on stage\u2062 at a\u200c Chautauqua Institution festival in New York. The media largely portrayed Matar as a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfls-only-openly-gay-player-asks-for-gets-day-off-after-grudens-emails-revealed\/\" title=\"NFL\u2019s Only Openly Gay Player Asks For, Gets Day Off After Gruden\u2019s Emails Revealed\">lone wolf<\/a>,&#8221; but \u2063federal prosecutors have launched a broader investigation into the son of Lebanese immigrants&#8217; possible ties\u200d to Hezbollah, an Islamist\u200b militant group, or the\u200d Iranian regime, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/newsletter\/08\/31\/2023\/rushdie-probe-looks-overseas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> Chautauqua County\u2019s district attorney Jason Schmidt,\u200d whose office is \u200cprosecuting Matar&#8217;s case. Matar pleaded not \u2063guilty to charges of assault and attempted murder and\u200b will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-reportedly-looking-into-iran-ties-of-salman-rushdies-stabber\/\" title=\"Justice Dept. reportedly investigating Iran links of Rushdie's attacker.\">stand trial early<\/a> next year.<\/p>\n<p>The broadened investigation, which\u200d Schmidt told <em>Semafor<\/em> \u200dwas &#8220;outside my paygrade,&#8221; may have political \u200dimplications for President Joe\u200b Biden&#8217;s Iran nuclear deal, which <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/bidens-iran-deal-will-bring-tehran-even-closer-to-the-nuclear-threshold-analysis-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysts\u2062 have said<\/a> will bring \u200dTehran even &#8220;closer to the \u200cnuclear \u200dthreshold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do think it does have political considerations and recognizing, for instance, that the Biden government is trying to negotiate with Iran now to kind\u2063 of bring them back into \u200ca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buckle-your-seatbelts-for-three-more-years-of-biden-making-the-world-more-dangerous\/\" title=\"Buckle Your Seatbelts For Three More Years Of Biden Making The World More Dangerous\">nuclear treaty<\/a>,&#8221; Schmidt said. &#8220;I understand that there\u2019s\u200d a lot\u2062 of \u200dconsiderations here \u2063that, you know, that are way \u200doutside my paygrade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his arrest, \u2064Matar was carrying a \u200cfake driver&#8217;s license\u2063 displaying the name of \u200ba\u200c top Hezbollah commander. According to \u2063his mother, \u200cMatar visited\u2063 his father in Lebanon in 2018 and &#8220;came back a totally changed person, deeply religious in the Shiite Muslim faith, and \u2063a supporter of Iran\u2019s Islamic revolution.&#8221; Federal prosecutors\u200d are\u200c investigating whether the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah trained or radicalized Matar during that trip,\u200b according to <em>Semafor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Iran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/08\/15\/1117484305\/iran-denies-it-was-involved-in-the-attack-on-salman-rushdie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">justified<\/a> the attack \u200cbut \u200ddenied\u2062 any involvement in it. &#8220;Regarding the attack against Salman Rushdie in America, we don&#8217;t consider anyone deserving reproach, blame or even condemnation, except for [Rushdie] \u200d himself and his supporters,&#8221; Nasser Kanaani, the spokesman of Iran&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hadi Matar, the man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie, is being investigated by the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for potential ties to an Iranian terrorist group. Matar was arrested on August 12, 2022, for allegedly attacking Rushdie, known for his controversial novel The Satanic Verses, which led to a fatwa from Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":2019448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2019448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}