The person suspected of attacking writer Salman Rushdie admitted for the first time to the media that he was inspired by the fatwa issued by the Iranian regime calling for his death, while saying that he admires the supreme leader who issued the fatwa Iran Ruhollah Khomeini.
A suspect, Hadi Mater, who attacked Rushdie on Friday during a speech in New York, said that he had only read "a few individual pages" from the book "The Devil's Verses" regarding which the fatwa against Rushdie was issued about thirty years ago.
According to him, he arrived at the event where Rushdie was expected to give a speech when he saw a tweet about the event.
The Indian-British writer has been forced to live in hiding since 1988 because of the fatwa they issued against him for allegedly blaspheming Islam, injured his eye and neck but no longer needed the assistance of a ventilator.
"I respect Ayatollah Khamenei, he is a great man," said the functional assassin Matar, who was recently reported to have been in contact with the Revolutionary Guards before the attack.
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