Iran’s leaders have denied direct involvement in the Aug. 12 assassination attempt on author Salman Rushdie, whose allegedly blasphemous 1988 novel prompted former Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to call for his death.
The attacker, Hadi Matar, traveled to a pro-Iran region of Lebanon in 2018, where he may have had contact with Iranian paramilitary forces and became more religious.
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