Investigators said that Mohammad Al-Saadi had pledged to kill Ivanka Trump and even possessed a blueprint of her Florida residence where she lived with her husband Jared Kushner.
A recently arrested man accused of links with Iran-backed terror networks allegedly plotted to assassinate US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump in an attempt to avenge the killing of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani in the recent US-Israeli strikes, according to a report by the New York Post.
The suspect, identified as 32-year-old Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, was reportedly captured in Turkey and later extradited to the United States.
Investigators claimed that he had pledged to kill Ivanka Trump and even possessed a blueprint of her Florida residence where she lived with her husband Jared Kushner.
Revenge plot after Sasem Soleimani killing
According to the report, the Iraqi national targeted the Trump family following the 2020 US drone strike in Baghdad that killed Soleimani.
Entifadh Qanbar, a former deputy military attaché at the Iraqi embassy in Washington, told the publication that Al-Saadi had openly spoken about seeking revenge.
“After Qasem was killed, he went around telling people ‘we need to kill Ivanka to burn down the house of Trump the way he burned down our house,’” Qanbar said.
He also claimed that Al-Saadi had a plan of Ivanka Trump’s house in Florida.
Social media threats
Al-Saadi allegedly posted an image on X showing the Florida area where Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner own a 24-million-dollar home.
The post included a message in Arabic warning Americans that “neither your palaces nor the Secret Service will protect you” and claiming that surveillance and analysis were already underway.
US authorities say Al-Saadi is a senior figure within Iraq-Iran terror circles and an operative linked to both Kata’ib Hezbollah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Al-Saadi charged of multiple international attacks
The US Department of Justice has charged Al-Saadi over 18 attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and the United States.
Authorities accused him of involvement in the firebombing of the Bank of New York Mellon in Amsterdam, the stabbing of two Jewish victims in London and a shooting at the US consulate building in Toronto.
He is also accused of planning and coordinating attacks against Jewish targets, including the bombing of a synagogue in Liège, Belgium, and the arson of a temple in Rotterdam.
Officials further alleged that he was connected to several failed attacks in the United States linked to the Middle East conflict.
Links to Soleimani and IRGC
According to Qanbar, Al-Saadi had a close relationship with Soleimani and viewed him as a father figure after the death of his own father, Iranian brigadier general Ahmad Kazemi, in 2006. He reportedly grew up in Baghdad with his Iraqi mother before being sent to Tehran for training with the Iranian army’s IRGC.
Qanbar said that Al-Saadi later ran a travel agency specialising in religious tours, which allowed him to travel internationally and connect with terror cells. When he was arrested in Turkey on May 15, he allegedly possessed an Iraqi service passport usually issued only to government employees and civil servants with approval from Iraq’s prime minister.
Despite being described as a major terror operative, Al-Saadi maintained a visible presence on social media. Posts showed him posing near landmarks including the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur.
Court documents also included photographs allegedly showing him with Soleimani at what appeared to be a military facility studying maps and equipment. In a 2020 social media post following Soleimani’s death, Al-Saadi reportedly declared that he would leave social media “until the American enemy is defeated”. However, prosecutors said he later returned online and continued posting messages praising Soleimani and other Iranian military figures killed in US strikes.
