Ivanka Trump was reportedly the target of an assassination plot at the hands of an alleged Iranian-trained terrorist.
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, planned to kill the United States President’s eldest daughter, 44, as “revenge” for the death of his mentor, Qassim Soleimani, the New York Post reported.
The Iraqi national had apparently “pledged” to end Ivanka’s life and had a blueprint of her home on the exclusive Indian Creek Island near Miami Beach, Florida, sources told the newspaper.
Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was killed in a drone attack in Baghdad in 2020.
US President Donald Trump celebrated his death as a personal win, saying at the time: “We caught him in the act and terminated him”. Trump described him as an “evil genius”.
Al-Saadi reportedly became fixated with the idea of burning down “the house of Trump the way he burned down our house”, Entifadh Qanbar, a former deputy military attache in the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, DC, told the New York Post.
The 32-year-old, apparently a high-ranking figure in Iraqi and Iranian terror circles, is said to have posted a map on X which showed the location of Ivanka’s home that she shares with husband Jared Kushner and their three children - Arabella Rose, Theodore James and Joseph Frederick.
According to the New York Post, Al-Saadi wrote in Arabic: “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.”
He was arrested on May 15 in Turkey and charged with 18 attacks and attempted attacks throughout Europe and the US, according to the US Department of Justice. It is not clear whether the charges related to the alleged plot to kill the US President’s daughter.
Most of Al-Saadi’s alleged targets were Jewish, and he is accused of involvement in a shooting at the US consulate in Toronto and the firebombing of the Bank of New York Mellon in Amsterdam in March, as well as the stabbing of two Jewish people in London in April.
Ivanka converted to Judaism in 2009 before her marriage to Kushner, who is Jewish.
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a senior fellow at the Washington-based New Lines Institute, claimed to the New York Post that Al-Saadi was close to Soleimani, and looked up to him as a father figure following the death of his own father.
Al-Saadi is reportedly being held in solitary confinement at the Brooklyn Detention Centre. Fellow detainees include Luigi Mangione, the American man accused of killing the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompson, and Nicolas Maduro, the former President of Venezuela.
Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs was also housed in the high-security New York jail last year.
Lawyers for Al-Saadi did not respond to comment when contacted by the New York Post. The Telegraph has contacted both the White House and the Department of Justice for comment.
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