Report: IRGC-linked man suspected of plot on Ivanka Trump, attacks on Jewish targets, recently arrested in Turkey, extradited to US

Ivanka Trump, the daughter of US President Donald Trump and the wife of key US negotiator Jared Kushner, was the target of an Iranian assassination attempt, the New York Post reports, citing sources. The suspect, who is also believed to be behind several recent attacks on Jewish targets in Europe and North America, was recently arrested.

According to the Post, 32-year-old Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, an Iraqi national trained by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), made a “pledge” to kill Trump’s daughter, in retaliation for the US killing of former IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani in 2020, during Trump’s first term.

Al-Saadi, who had been personally mentored by the top Iranian general, had blueprints for Ivanka’s Florida home, the report says. It cites a former Iraqi military source as saying that he told several people after Soleimani’s assassination that “we need to kill Ivanka to burn down the house of Trump the way he burned down our house.”

According to the report, Al-Saadi was arrested on May 15 in Turkey.

He was extradited to the US and is facing charges relating to 18 attacks and attempted attacks throughout Europe and the United States, the report says, citing the US Department of Justice.

Al-Saadi is also suspected of being behind several recent terror plots against Jewish targets, including last month’s stabbing of two Jewish men in London’s Golder’s Green neighborhood.

The report says he is an operative of both the IRGC and Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah, a powerful Shiite militia group.