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Iran-trained suspect plotted to kill Ivanka Trump, US says

Arrested Iraqi national allegedly mapped her Florida home and tied threats to Soleimani killing

An Iraqi national allegedly trained by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps plotted to assassinate Ivanka Trump, according to US authorities, in what investigators describe as a revenge plan tied to the 2020 killing of General Qasem Soleimani.

The suspect, identified as 32-year-old Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, is accused of vowing to target the daughter of President Donald Trump and obtaining a floor plan of her residence in Florida. According to sources cited by the New York Post, Al-Saadi said that killing Ivanka Trump would amount to “burning Trump’s house as he burned ours.”

Investigators say the suspect also posted a map of the residential area where Ivanka Trump lives with her husband, Jared Kushner, alongside threats in Arabic directed at the Trump family and US intelligence services.

Al-Saadi was arrested in Turkey on May 15 and later extradited to the United States. The Department of Justice accuses him of coordinating or planning at least 18 attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and North America targeting US and Jewish sites.

Among the incidents cited are a Molotov cocktail attack against the Bank of New York Mellon in Amsterdam, a stabbing involving two Jewish individuals in London, and a shooting at the US consulate in Toronto. Federal authorities also link him to arson attacks targeting Jewish places of worship in Belgium and the Netherlands.

According to Entifadh Qanbar, a former military attaché at the Iraqi embassy in Washington, Al-Saadi grew up in Baghdad and was later trained in Iran following the death of his father, Iranian General Ahmad Kazemi. Qanbar said the suspect used a purported religious travel agency as cover to move internationally and establish links with extremist cells.

Authorities describe Al-Saadi as highly active on social media, where he shared images of Iranian military symbols and messages supporting Soleimani. He is currently being held in solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

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