Prosecutors said Hadi Matar was motivated by the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s call for Rushdie’s death.

Hadi Matar has already been convicted of state-level attempted murder charges for the 2022 attack that left the author blind in one eye.

A man has been convicted of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie. A jury delivered its verdict Wednesday in Buffalo, New York.