Captured Iran-linked terrorist had ‘pledge’ to kill Ivanka Trump in retaliation for Soleimani killing

An Iran-linked terrorist allegedly targeted Ivanka Trump for assassination as part of a revenge plot tied to the 2020 drone strike of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani by her father, President Donald Trump. He was arrested in Turkey this month and extradited to the US, where he faces 18 charges relating to attacks and attempted attacks in Europe and the US.

32-year-old Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, who was recently captured, allegedly had a “pledge” to kill the First Daughter and possessed a blueprint of her Florida home. Al-Saadi allegedly targeted Trump's family in retaliation for the death of Soleimani, the Iranian major general who led the IRGC’s Quds Force before he was killed in January 2020. 

Reports revealed that Al-Saadi was personally close to Soleimani and viewed him as a father figure following the death of his own father.

“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,'” a former deputy military attaché from the Iraqi embassy told The New York Post. “We heard that he had a plan of Ivanka’s house in Florida.”

In a post on X, Al-Saadi shared an image of a map of the area where Ivanka and her husband live in Florida. Included was a caption that read “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.”

Al-saadi is a senior officer linked to the Iran-backed militia Kata’ib Hizballah. He allegedly helped organize attacks carried out by the group known as Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya (HIYA).