First Daughter of the United States, Ivanka Trump, was reportedly targeted for assassination by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to a report from The New York Post published on Friday.
Sources cited by the NYP claim that IRGC-trained terrorist Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi was aiming to attack the Trump family in retaliation for the killing of Iranian military chief Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike in Baghdad six years ago.
Al-Saadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi national, was recently arrested in Turkey and extradited to the United States.
Following his arrest, it was disclosed by authorities that Al-Saadi had made a "pledge" to kill Ivanka Trump and possessed a blueprint of her home in Florida, according to sources in the NYP report.
He had also posted a map on his X account showing the area in Florida where Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, reside. The accompanying message in Arabic on the X post translated to, “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.”
Entifadh Qanbar, a former deputy military attaché at the Iraqi embassy in Washington, told the NYP, “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.’”
Qanbar further added, “We heard that he had a plan of Ivanka’s house in Florida.”
Charges against the suspected assassin
Al-Saadi is currently facing charges related to 18 attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and the United States, according to the Department of Justice (DoJ).
His previous crimes include attacks on US and Jewish targets, such as the firebombing of the Bank of New York Mellon in Amsterdam in March, the stabbing of two Jewish individuals in London in April, and a shooting at the US consulate building in Toronto, also in March, as detailed by the DoJ.
He is also accused of being linked to the bombing of a synagogue in Liège, Belgium, and arson at a temple in Rotterdam in March, and to various other foiled terror attacks in the US
Previous Iranian-linked threats against Ivanka
This is not the first time reports of Ivanka being an Iranian target have circulated in the press.
Last month, A suspected Iranian front group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia (HAYI) called on Americans to kill US President Donald Trump and said it had almost murdered Ivanka.
Adressing trump directly, the group posted the following statement on social-media channels affiliated with the Iranian regime.
“Your daughter was on the verge of death 13 days ago, but our men do not kill whores... know, you fool, that retribution will pursue you, your sons, and your sons-in-law.”
Michael Starr contributed to this report.