#Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei:
"The execution verdict of #SalmanRushdie, as it relies on holy verses, like holy verses, remains firm and uncompromisable."
#BREAKING
Police have identified the attacker of #SalmanRushdie as 24-year-old Hadi Matar from Fairfield, New Jersey. His motive is not yet clear.
Preliminary reports indicate that the attacker had previously published material supporting #Iran's regime & was a fan of Soleimani.
#UPDATE
—#SalmanRushdie is out of surgery & on ventilator
—Likely to lose an eye, suffered liver damage
—Police are stationed at the residence of attacker Hadi Matar in Fairview, NJ; FBI helping Police
—Matar's Facebook page had #Iran IRGC propaganda, is now blocked
The Keyhan newspaper, known as the mouthpiece of #Iran's dictator Ali Khamenei, congratulated the man (Hadi Matar) who stabbed #SalmanRushdie and calls him "courageous."
"A kiss on his hand who tore the neck of God's enemy with a knife," the piece adds.
#UPDATE #SalmanRushdie
-was stabbed in the neck, abdomen
-was on a ventilator Friday evening, with a damaged liver, severed nerves in his arm and an eye he was likely to lose
-physician at the scene described Rushdie’s wounds as “serious but recoverable” apnews.com/article/salman…
#SalmanRushdie's attacker, Hadi Matar, used this fake driver's license.
His alias was "Hassan Mughniyah," a reminder of Imad Mughniyeh, a senior Hezbollah official close to #Iran's IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani.
(Both are dead.)
How did Matar slip under the radar?
Three known #Iran lobbyists busy diverting attention away from Iran's regime following the stabbing of #SalmanRushdie.
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2) #Iran IRGC’s Telegram channel posted a video saying regime is now able to quickly build nuclear weapons and its ICBMs can "turn New York into ruins and hell!"
Yet Biden and Europe are still begging for a highly flawed deal with Tehran.
—Kayhan daily: assailant's hands "should be showered with kisses"
—Iran daily: "The neck of Satan under the blade"
—Mehr news agency: "Rushdie was no ordinary apostate"
—Khorasan daily: "The devil on the way to hell"
Shahram Poursafi is wanted for his alleged involvement in criminal activities to include material support to terrorism and the attempted murder for hire of a former high-ranking United States Government (USG) official.
From October 2021 to April 2022, #Iran-based Poursafi allegedly used encrypted, Internet-based messaging applications to hire criminal elements within the United States to murder a former USG official in Washington D.C. or Maryland, in exchange for $300,000.
1) Mainstream media has cited certain individuals as sources on controversial articles regarding #Iran. Recent developments indicate those individuals are none other than Iranian spies/operatives. MSM has some explaining to do.