He had on his cell phone a picture of a fundamentalist soldier and a fake driver’s license bearing the surname of the former Hezbollah spy chief.
Hadi Matar will face at least two charges of attempted murder and assault, which Chautauqua County police are accusing him of, where writer Salman Rushdie was due to deliver a speech Friday, stabbing him several times as he began the act.
Although it was initially revealed that he carried out his attack “alone”, without express orders from any organization, more recent hypotheses qualify this statement because of the recent activity in the United States of the ‘pasdarán’, members of the Corps of the Islamic Revolution Guards, the most extremist supporter of the Iranian regime, for whom Matar has shown his admiration on social networks.
He is 24 years old, born in California and recently moved to New Jersey. His last known address is in Fairview, a town of approximately 13,000 residents in Bergen County, on the banks of the Hudson River and across from Manhattan. The Lebanese newspaper ‘An-Nahar’ has confirmed that his family was from Yaroum, a city in the south of the country that he would never have visited.
Images of Khomeini and the current Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, are appearing on their social networks. Investigators of the case also found images in a messaging application on his mobile phone of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani, who died in Baghdad in 2020 as a result of a US drone airstrike on the airport in the Iraqi capital ordered by the US president. Donald Trump .
At the time of his arrest, Matar had a counterfeit driver’s license in the name of Hassan Mughnyah, a surname that coincides with that of the former head of Hezbollah’s intelligence service. He died in 2008 in a car bomb attack in Damascus, Syria. Hezbollah blamed Israel for his death. Both Mughnyah and Suleimani are considered martyrs by the Iranian regime.
The US Justice Department released a statement last Wednesday accusing a “pasadarán” member, Shahram Poursafi, of hiring a hitman – who betrayed him to the FBI – for $250,000 to kill Trump’s former adviser. on national security John Bolton. He also thought about killing former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. It is currently in unknown wall.
In late July, 23-year-old Azerbaijani native Khalid Mehdiyev was detained with an AK-47 assault rifle by New York police outside the Brooklyn home of Iranian journalist and dissident Masih Alineja. The detainee had tried to force the door of the house and, in addition to the weapon, also had ammunition and a suitcase full of money. Alineja becomes the target of the Tehran regime.
With these very recent antecedents, the hypothesis that Matar had some relationship with the fundamentalists remains very much alive for the time being.
Source: La Verdad
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