According to the federal indictment, the man, Hadi Matar, is alleged to have supported the Iran-backed Shiite militia Hezbollah and tried to kill the author because of his novel "The Satanic Verses."
A jury found him guilty of all charges, including participating in an act of transnational terrorism.
It was during a lecture in New York in August 2022 that Salman Rushdie was stabbed about ten times, one of which left him blind in one eye.
Rushdie's attacker was arrested at the scene and sentenced in 2025 to 25 years in prison for attempted murder and assault. Matar, 28, is now serving that sentence in New York state. The new federal sentence could mean life in prison.
