An official of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon said today that the group has no additional information on the knife attack on author Salman Rushdie.
“We do not know anything about this case. So we will not comment,” the official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Hezbollah is backed by Iran, whose former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in 1988 issued a fatfa, or religious decree, calling on Muslims to kill Rushdie for blasphemy.
The suspected shooter was identified by police as 24-year-old Hadi Matar from New Jersey. Matar is of Lebanese descent and his family hails from the southern Lebanese city of Yaroun, Yaroun Mayor Ali Tehfe told Reuters.
Tehfe said the parents immigrated to the United States and Matar was born and raised there.
When asked if Mattar or his parents were affiliated with or supported Hezbollah, Tehfe said he had “absolutely no information” about the political views of the parents or Mattar, as they lived abroad.
Source: Capital
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