Prosecutors are investigating whether was behind the of Satanic Verses author after grooming his US born attacker on a visit to Lebanon.
Hadi Matar, 25, is due to stand trial for his attack on the writer who was stabbed repeatedly on stage at a book fair in upstate New York in August last year.
But Chautauqua District Attorney Jason Schmidt said federal agents are probing whether the suspect was given his mission by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group on a 2018 trip to the Middle East.
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