An Iraqi national with alleged ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been accused of plotting to assassinate Ivanka Trump in retaliation for President Trump ordering the 2020 drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani.
According to reports, recently arrested terror suspect Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, pledged to kill Ivanka Trump and allegedly obtained a blueprint of her Florida home. Sources told The New York Post the plot was intended to “burn down the house of Trump” in revenge for Soleimani’s death in Baghdad.
Al-Saadi reportedly posted a map of the area surrounding Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s Florida residence alongside a threat claiming neither “palaces nor the Secret Service” would protect Americans, adding that operatives were in a “stage of surveillance and analysis.”
Federal prosecutors allege Al-Saadi was involved in at least 18 attacks and attempted attacks targeting U.S. and Jewish sites across Europe and North America.
Sources identified Al-Saadi as a senior operative connected to both Iran’s IRGC and Kata’ib Hizballah. Analysts and former Iraqi officials said he was closely tied to Soleimani and later to IRGC Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani. Investigators also allege he trained with the IRGC in Tehran before using a travel agency business to coordinate with terror cells internationally.
Al-Saadi was arrested in Turkey on May 15 and extradited to the United States, where federal charges accuse him of coordinating attacks tied to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
