Washington, DC – The New York Post has revealed a major bombshell, disclosing details of a foiled assassination plot targeting Ivanka Trump, daughter of US President Donald Trump.
The plot was attributed to a prominent Iraqi operative carrying official travel documents and who had received advanced military training from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. The aim was direct revenge for the assassination of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad nearly six years ago.
Documents and architectural plans for Ivanka’s Florida home
According to the extensive report published by the American newspaper, the accused is named Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32 years old. He explicitly vowed to physically eliminate Ivanka Trump as part of a broader revenge operation led by networks loyal to Tehran.
Judicial and security investigations revealed that Al-Saadi had already obtained detailed architectural plans of Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner’s Florida home, which has a market value of approximately $24 million.
The newspaper quoted Intifadh Qanbar, the former deputy military attaché at the Iraqi embassy in Washington, confirming that al-Saadi had been repeating explicitly inflammatory statements within his inner circle, including: “We must kill Ivanka to burn down Trump’s house as he burned down ours,” referring to the airstrike that killed Soleimani.
Al-Saadi reinforced his threats by posting a map on the X platform, precisely showing the location of the mansion in Florida, and accompanied it with a message in Arabic addressed to Americans, saying: “Look at this picture and know that neither your palaces nor the Secret Service will protect you… We are now in the monitoring and analysis phase… I told you our revenge is only a matter of time.”
From arrest in Türkiye to solitary confinement in Brooklyn
US Justice Department documents indicate that al-Saadi, a key figure in linking Iraqi and Iranian armed factions, was arrested in Turkey on May 15 while attempting to travel to Russia and was immediately extradited to the United States.
Al-Saadi now faces a serious federal indictment, including charges of planning and executing 18 attacks and attempted attacks in several European and American countries, targeting diplomatic and Jewish interests. These attacks include throwing firebombs at the Bank of New York Mellon in Amsterdam, stabbing Jews in London, shooting at the US consulate in Toronto, and plotting to bomb a synagogue in Belgium and set fire to a temple in Rotterdam, all against the backdrop of escalating tensions in the Middle East.
Al-Saadi is closely linked to the Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. In this regard, the newspaper quoted Elizabeth Tsurkov, a senior fellow at the New Lines Institute in Washington, who was released in September 2025 after spending 903 days in Kataib Hezbollah captivity in Baghdad, as saying that al-Saadi enjoyed exceptional status and a very close relationship with the current commander of the Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, who continued to provide him with logistical support and resources for his transnational networks.
The defendant’s background reveals that he was raised in Baghdad by an Iraqi mother and considered Soleimani a spiritual father figure after the death of his father, Ahmad Kazemi (a prominent Iranian general who died in 2006), before moving to Tehran for military training.
Iraqi diplomatic cover and social media infiltration
One of the most serious revelations in the case file was Qanbar’s disclosure that al-Saadi possessed an Iraqi service passport at the time of his arrest. This official document, issued to government employees, requires direct approval from the Iraqi Prime Minister, granting him freedom of movement and facilitating his access to international visas at airports.
Al-Saadi used a front business, a “religious travel agency,” as a cover for traveling the world and managing sleeper cells.
Despite his extensive security training, the federal indictment revealed that Saadi was suspiciously active on social media, posting photos of himself in front of world landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and Petronas Towers, as well as military photos of himself with Qassem Soleimani inside a military facility, examining maps, all on his Snapchat account.
Saadi also sent direct threats to his victims via the same app, accompanied by photos of a pistol equipped with a silencer. The defendant is currently being held under heavy guard in solitary confinement at the federal detention center in Brooklyn, New York, awaiting his historic trial. The White House has remained silent, declining to comment on the plot so far.
