{"id":97549,"date":"2022-08-13T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=97549"},"modified":"2022-08-13T16:37:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T14:37:33","slug":"22-00-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=97549","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018Lebanese Hero\u2019: Iranian Outlet Praises Assailant Behind Attempted Murder of Novelist Salman Rushdie"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>A \u2018Lebanese Hero\u2019: Iranian Outlet Praises Assailant Behind Attempted Murder of Novelist Salman Rushdie<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Ben Cohen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hours after the assassination attempt on Friday upon the celebrated Anglo-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, pro-Iranian and pro-Hezbollah social media feeds lit up with praise for the alleged assailant, 24-year-old Hadi Matar of Fairview, NJ.<\/span><\/p>\n

At least one prominent Iranian Twitter account<\/a> associated with the website<\/a> \u201cIran in Arabic\u201d \u2014 which describes itself as \u201cpart of a comprehensive official Iranian media organization\u201d \u2014 posted a graphic with a photograph of Matar placed next to one of Rushdie. The tweet described Matar as a \u201cLebanese hero who stabbed Satan Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, in which he insulted the Prophet of guidance and mercy, the Messenger of God, Muhammad.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The tweet was deleted shortly after being posted, but was shared multiple times. The \u201cIran in Arabic\u201d website, which was featured in the Twitter graphic, carries reports and articles from official Iranian media outlets translated into Arabic, along with information aimed at Arab citizens seeking to study or work in Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

The target of a \u201cfatwa\u201d (edict) demanding his murder issued by the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini following the publication of his novel \u201cThe Satanic Verses\u201d in 1988, regarded by Islamists as blasphemous, the 75-year-old Rushdie was stabbed several times in the neck and torso as he was about to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York. The novelist, who previously spent ten years in hiding because of the \u201cfatwa,\u201d was ferried by helicopter to a nearby hospital for emergency surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n

Several other Arabic and Farsi language posts on Twitter on Friday afternoon celebrated the attack on Rushdie.<\/span><\/p>\n

One account bearing a photograph of Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah, published an image of Matar being arrested by New York State Police officers, alongside a message declaring him to be the \u201cLebanese champion from the South who stabbed the apostate Salman Rushdie.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Another tweet, posted alongside a video of Nasrallah speaking, declared that the \u201chonorable fatwa has been implemented today,\u201d adding that the alleged assassin was a \u201chero.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Some commenters noted that the tweets, including the one from \u201cIran in Arabic,\u201d had identified a different individual as the alleged assassin before the US media named Matar as the suspect.<\/span><\/p>\n

Official Iranian news outlets refrained from claiming direct responsibility for the attempted slaying of Rushdie. Press TV, the regime\u2019s English-language broadcaster, described Rushdie as \u201cthe author of a blasphemous anti-Islam book,\u201d underlining that \u201cImam Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, issued a fatwa (religious decree) calling for Rushdie\u2019s death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

One Iranian official told the official news agency IRNA that he was convinced the attack on Rushdie was a US \u201cfalse flag\u201d operation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIsn\u2019t it odd that as we near a potential nuclear deal, the US makes claims about a hit on Bolton, and then this happens?\u201d said Mohammad Marandi, a senior advisor to the Iranian delegation attending talks in Vienna aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal. Marandi was referring to the foiled assassination attempt on former US national security adviser John Bolton<\/a>, which resulted in US government charges against a 45-year-old Iranian man, still at large, who is allegedly linked to the regime\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Revelations of the plot against Bolton came shortly after four Iranians were charged with the attempted kidnapping of Masih Alinejad<\/a>, an Iranian human rights activist based in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marandi went on to express satisfaction with the attempt on Rushdie\u2019s life. \u201cI won\u2019t be shedding tears for a writer who spouts endless hatred and contempt for Muslims and Islam, a pawn of empire who poses as a postcolonial novelist,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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