US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump was allegedly targeted for assassination by an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-trained member in a revenge plot linked to the 2020 killing of top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani, according to a report by the New York Post.
According to the report, recently captured suspect Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, had allegedly made a 'pledge' to kill Ivanka Trump and was even found with a blueprint of her Florida residence.
The Iraqi national was allegedly seeking revenge for the US drone strike in Baghdad that killed Soleimani, the powerful commander of Iran's elite Quds Force, during Donald Trump's presidency six years ago.
"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 New York Post.
The New York Post further reported that Al-Saadi had shared a map image on X showing the area in Florida where Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner own a $24 million home.
Alongside the image, he allegedly posted a chilling message in Arabic threatening Americans.
"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," the translated message read.
Al-Saadi was arrested in Turkey on May 15 and later extradited to the United States. The Department of Justice has charged him in connection with 18 attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and the US.
US authorities allege that he was involved in several attacks targeting American and Jewish sites, including the firebombing of the Bank of New York Mellon building in Amsterdam in March, the stabbing of two Jewish victims in London in April and a shooting attack near the US consulate building in Toronto.
