Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump’s daughter and confidante, was targeted for assassination by an Islamist terrorist who wanted revenge for the destruction of terrorist Qasem Soleimani in a U.S. drone strike during Trump’s first presidency.
That’s according to a report from the New York Post, which cited a number of sources for its story.
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, recently was captured in Turkey, accused of a long list of some 18 attacks or attempted attacks in the U.S. and Europe, and is in custody in the U.S. now, the report said.
The report explained Al-Saadi was enraged by the elimination of Soleimani earlier.
He “made a ‘pledge’ to kill Ivanka and even had a blueprint of her Florida home,” the report said.
“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 told the Post.
He’s formerly a deputy military attaché in the Iraqi embassy in Washington.
“We heard that he had a plan of Ivanka’s house in Florida,” Qanbar said.
The publication said a second source confirmed the plot.
UPDATE: Assassination plot targeting First Daughter Ivanka Trump has been uncovered after the capture and extradition of an IRGC-trained terrorist.
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🚨 Breaking: Ivanka Trump was reportedly targeted in an assassination plot by an IRGC-linked Iraqi national.
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The suspect also reportedly posted a picture of a map showing the Florida location where Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner live with the Arabic warning that, translated, charges that neither palaces nor the Secret Service “will protect you.”
“Al-Saadi is said to be a high-ranking figure in Iraq-Iran terror circles,” the report said. “He’s been behind attacks on US and Jewish targets including the firebombing of the Bank of New York Mellon in Amsterdam in March, the stabbing of two Jewish victims in London in April and a shooting at the U.S. consulate building in Toronto, also in March.”
Those cases were listed by the Department of Justice, the Post said.
Ivanka, 44, converted to Orthodox Judaism in 2009 on her marriage to Kushner.
“Publicly available information shows that Mohammad Baqer was in contact and a close friend of …Qasem Soleimani and that in and of itself is a huge coup for any operative within the ranks of these militias, and on top of that he was then close to [Esmail] Qaani who replaced Soleimani,” said Elizabeth Tsurkov, of the New Lines Institute.
She was kidnapped in Bagdad in 2023 and held hostage by Hezbollah until her release in 2025.
The suspect allegedly used a travel agency he set up to provide cover for his trips around the world to “connect” with terrorists, the report said.
