A chilling new terrorism case is raising serious questions about just how far Iranian-backed extremist networks were willing to go after President Trump ordered the strike that eliminated Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in 2020. According to reports from the New York Post, an Iraqi national now facing terrorism charges in the United States allegedly plotted to assassinate Ivanka Trump as part of a revenge campaign tied directly to Soleimani’s death.
The suspect, identified as 32-year-old Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, was arrested earlier this month in Turkey before being extradited to the United States. Federal prosecutors accuse him of participating in a sprawling network of terror activity stretching across Europe and North America, including attacks targeting Americans and Jewish institutions.
While the Department of Justice indictment reportedly avoids naming Ivanka Trump directly, sources familiar with the investigation told the Post that Al-Saadi privately expressed a desire to target President Trump’s daughter in retaliation for the Baghdad drone strike that wiped out Soleimani. Considering Soleimani spent years orchestrating terror operations and helping destabilize the Middle East, it apparently did not sit well with Iran’s loyalists that someone finally removed him from the chessboard permanently.
Former Iraqi embassy military attaché Entifadh Qanbar described Al-Saadi’s alleged obsession in disturbing detail. According to Qanbar, the suspect repeatedly told associates, “we need to kill Ivanka to burn down the house of Trump the way he burned down our house.”
Authorities reportedly discovered that Al-Saadi had obtained blueprints of Ivanka Trump’s Florida home and posted online threats that included maps of the gated community where Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner reside. One translated message allegedly warned Americans that “neither your palaces nor the Secret Service will protect you,” while claiming the operation had already entered the “surveillance and analysis” phase. That is not exactly the kind of online rant that gets dismissed as random internet nonsense.
Federal prosecutors say Al-Saadi was a senior member of Kata’ib Hizballah, the Iran-backed Iraqi militia tied closely to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The group has long been linked to attacks on American forces, Western interests, and Israeli allies throughout the region. Yet somehow there are still foreign policy “experts” in Washington who insist Iran’s proxy network is mostly misunderstood. Sure, and sharks are just enthusiastic swimmers.
Court filings reportedly connect Al-Saadi to nearly 20 terror attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and North America. Those incidents allegedly include the firebombing of a Bank of New York Mellon office in Amsterdam, a shooting at the U.S. consulate in Toronto, and attacks targeting synagogues and Jewish institutions in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Terrorism analyst Elizabeth Tsurkov, who herself was kidnapped in Iraq by Kata’ib Hizballah, told the Post that Al-Saadi maintained extensive connections inside Iran-backed militia circles. Officials also reportedly believe he had close ties to Soleimani before the Iranian commander’s death.
Al-Saadi is now being held in solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn as the federal case moves forward. The allegations paint a deeply disturbing picture of an international terror operative allegedly plotting violence not only against Americans in general, but against the family of a sitting president specifically. That is the kind of threat most Americans assumed only existed in political thrillers, not federal court documents.
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