A suspected terrorist with alleged ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iraqi militant networks allegedly plotted to assassinate Ivanka Trump in a revenge attack tied to the 2020 killing of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, according to a bombshell report.
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi national recently captured in Turkey and extradited to the United States, allegedly made a “pledge” to kill President Donald Trump’s daughter and even obtained a blueprint of her Florida home, according to sources cited by the New York Post.
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The alleged motive was vengeance for the U.S. drone strike in Baghdad that killed Soleimani, the powerful Iranian military commander and head of the Quds Force.
“After Qasem was killed, he [Al-Saadi] went around telling people ‘we need to kill Ivanka to burn down the house of Trump the way he burned down our house,’” Entifadh Qanbar, a former deputy military attaché in the Iraqi embassy in Washington, told The Post.
“We heard that he had a plan of Ivanka’s house in Florida,” Qanbar added.
A second source reportedly confirmed the alleged plot.
According to the report, Al-Saadi also posted an image on X showing a map of the exclusive Florida area where Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner own a $24 million home.
The accompanying Arabic message reportedly translated to a direct threat.
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“I say to the Americans look at this picture and know that neither your palaces nor the Secret Service will protect you. We are currently in the stage of surveillance and analysis. I told you, our revenge is a matter of time.”
Federal prosecutors have charged Al-Saadi in connection with 18 attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and North America.
The Department of Justice alleges he was involved in terror attacks targeting both American and Jewish interests.
Those incidents reportedly include the firebombing of the Bank of New York Mellon in Amsterdam, the stabbing of two Jewish victims in London, and a shooting attack at the U.S. consulate building in Toronto.
Authorities also allege he helped coordinate attacks involving a synagogue bombing in Belgium and arson at a temple in Rotterdam.
Ivanka Trump, 44, converted to Orthodox Judaism before marrying Kushner in 2009, potentially making her a symbolic target for extremist groups.
Al-Saadi is alleged to have ties to both Kata’ib Hezbollah and Iran’s IRGC.
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a senior fellow at the New Lines Institute who was kidnapped in Baghdad in 2023 and later released, told The Post that Al-Saadi maintained deep ties inside Iran-backed militant circles.
“His [Al-Saadi’s] relationship with Soleimani was obviously a big coup for the Iraqi militia groups he worked with,” she said.
Tsurkov also said Al-Saadi reportedly maintained a close relationship with Soleimani’s successor, Brigadier General Esmail Qaani.
According to Qanbar, Al-Saadi viewed Soleimani as a father figure after the death of his own father, Iranian Brigadier General Ahmad Kazemi.
Qanbar claimed Al-Saadi was sent to Tehran for IRGC training and later used a travel agency business as cover to move internationally and allegedly connect with terror cells.
He also reportedly carried an Iraqi service passport, which Qanbar said gave him enhanced travel access.
The federal indictment reportedly includes images from Al-Saadi’s social media showing him with Soleimani in what appeared to be military settings.
In one 2020 post cited in court documents, Al-Saadi allegedly wrote: “I will leave social media and turn off all my phones until the American enemy is defeated …victory or martyrdom.”
In a later post, he allegedly referred to Soleimani as a martyr, The New York Post reported.
“I address you while in great shock and intense weakness, a feeling I have never experienced in my life except once, at the martyrdom of …Qasem Soleimani,” he said.
Al-Saadi is currently being held in solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
The White House did not immediately comment on the alleged plot.
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