Salman Rushdie off ventilator and 'road to recovery has begun', agent says

British author Salman Rushdie listens during an interview with Reuters in London on April 15, 2008.Salman Rushdie, the acclaimed author who was stabbed repeatedly at a public appearance in New York state on Friday , 33 years after Iran's then-supreme leader called for him to be killed, is off a ventilator and his health is improving, his agent and a son said on Sunday.

In 1989 Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for his assassination.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that Iranian state institutions had incited violence against Rushdie for generations, and state-affiliated media had gloated about the attempt on his life."The United States and partners will not waver in our determination to stand up to these threats, using every appropriate tool at our disposal.

An initial law enforcement review of Matar's social media accounts showed he was sympathetic to Shi'ite extremism and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps , according to NBC New York.Rushdie was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, for treatment after the attack. "Though his life changing injuries are severe, his usual feisty & defiant sense of humour remains intact," Zafar Rushdie wrote on Twitter.

Matar was born in California and recently moved to New Jersey, the NBC New York report said, adding that he had a fake driver's license on him. Matar's parents emigrated to the US, where he was born and raised, the mayor said, adding he had no information on their political views.

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