After being stabbed, Rushdie was taken to the UPMC Hammot Surgery Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, and underwent surgery. Andrew Wylie, RushdieK’s agent, said the author was on a ventilator with a damaged liver, ruptured nerves in one arm and the possibility of losing an eye.
Peas reportedly moved from his home in Fairview, New Jersey to Chautauqua in upstate New York, where Rushdie, 75, was a guest speaker at a local literary festival. She was being interviewed by 73-year-old Henry Reese when Matar, said to be of Lebanese descent, took to the stage to attack her.
Members of the audience who jumped on stage to protect the panelists knocked them down, and among them the doctor helped perform CPR before taking Rushdie to the hospital.
Given Matar’s perceived Iranian sympathies, the attack immediately had geopolitical impact, as did the latter a few days later. Biden The administration’s Justice Department has charged a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with plotting to assassinate former national security adviser John Bolton.
Iran’s radical clerical leadership, led by Ayatollah Khomeini, passed a fatwa calling for the death penalty after the publication of Rushdie’s book. satanic verses in 1988. The fatwa was never formally revoked, but after years of hiding and under protection, Rushdie, who is currently living in New York City, recently resumed normal activities.
So far Iran has not commented on the Rushdie attack.