Iran Is Trying to Inspire Homegrown Terror
Salman Rushdie, and an American lured into a tryst at a Las Vegas hotel room, have already fallen victim.
July 27, 2023
Salman Rushdie, and an American lured into a tryst at a Las Vegas hotel room, have already fallen victim.
Since its inception in 1979, the Islamic Republic has cultivated sophisticated and lethal terrorist networks not only in the Middle East, but also in Europe, the U.S., and above all Latin America. But it has also turned more recently to using propaganda to encourage individual, small-scale attacks by Shiites, including most famously the 2022 stabbing of the novelist Salman Rushdie. America’s killing of the Iranian general and master terrorist Qassem Suleimani has encouraged this approach, write Moustafa Ayad and Matthew Levitt.
Salman Rushdie, and an American lured into a tryst at a Las Vegas hotel room, have already fallen victim.
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Since its inception in 1979, the Islamic Republic has cultivated sophisticated and lethal terrorist networks not only in the Middle East, but also in Europe, the U.S., and above all Latin America. But it has also turned more recently to using propaganda to encourage individual, small-scale attacks by Shiites, including most famously the 2022 stabbing of the novelist Salman Rushdie. America’s killing of the Iranian general and master terrorist Qassem Suleimani has encouraged this approach, write Moustafa Ayad and Matthew Levitt.
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