NJ man, Hadi Matar, with sympathies toward Iranian government ID’d as suspect in Salman Rushdie stabbing

The man arrested in Friday’s stabbing of famed novelist Salman Rushdie was identified by police as a New Jersey man, who law enforcement sources tell The Post he had sympathies toward the Iranian government that has called for Rushdie’s death. Rushdie suffered stab wounds to the neck and abdomen, and remained in surgery at a nearby trauma center Friday evening, according to police. Law enforcement officers detain a person outside the Chautauqua Institution. Rushdie, 75, has been the subject of death threats from the Iranian regime since the late 1980s. Law enforcement stand watch outside at the Chautauqua Institution.