An Iraqi terrorist with ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps allegedly pledged to kill Ivanka Trump in retaliation for her father’s 2020 assassination of Iranian military chief Qasem Soleimani, and had a blueprint of her Florida home to prove he was serious, the New York Post reported Friday.
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a senior commander within the Iran-backed militia Kata’ib Hizballah, was arrested in Turkey on May 15 and moved to the United States, where he now faces six terrorism-related counts in Manhattan federal court. The Justice Department said he directed or coordinated nearly 20 attacks across Europe and North America since March, including an explosives attack on a Bank of New York Mellon branch in Amsterdam, a stabbing of two Jewish men in London, and a shooting at the U.S. consulate in Toronto.
Al-Saadi’s vendetta was rooted in his close relationship with Soleimani, whom Trump ordered killed in Baghdad in January 2020, according to sources who spoke to the Post.
“After Qasem was killed, he went around telling people ‘we need to kill Ivanka to burn down the house of Trump the way he burned down our house,’” former Iraqi embassy official Entifadh Qanbar told the Post.
Al-Saadi also posted a map on social media of the Florida enclave where Ivanka and Jared Kushner own a $24 million home, alongside an Arabic-language threat.
“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 threat said.
The arrest comes amid a broader wave of Iran-linked threats against Trump and his circle that accelerated after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iran in February, a conflict analysts say has reshaped the Middle East. Al-Saadi is currently being held in solitary confinement at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.
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