‘Payback’: IRGC terrorist targeted Ivanka Trump for assassination

A terrorist trained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reportedly planned to assassinate Ivanka Trump as revenge for the death of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani.

Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, who was recently captured and transported to the United States to stand trial on terrorism related charges, made a “pledge” to kill President Donald J. Trump’s daughter and had a blueprint of her home in Florida, sources told the New York Post.

The 32-year-old Iraqi national allegedly targeted the president’s family to avenge the death of his mentor Soleimani, who was taken out by the United States in a drone strike in Baghdad in January 2020 during Trump’s first term in office.

Entifadh Qanbar, a former deputy military attaché in the Iraqi embassy in Washington, D.C., told the paper that “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.’”

“We heard that he had a plan of Ivanka’s house in Florida,” Qanbar said. The Post reports that a second source also confirmed the terrorist’s plot to kill the first daughter.

“Al-Saadi also posted a picture of a map showing the enclave in Florida where Ivanka and husband Jared Kushner have a $24 million home on X, alongside a chilling threat in Arabic which translates 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,’” the Post reported.

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The report comes as the president is mulling whether to resume strikes on the Islamic Republic, which has not been cooperative with the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the vital navigational chokepoint through which 20 percent of the world’s oil supply passes.

Al-Saadi was arrested on May 15 in Turkey and extradited to the U.S., where he was charged with “six counts of terrorism-related offenses for his activities as an operative of Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including his involvement in nearly 20 attacks and attempted attacks throughout Europe and the United States,” according to a Justice Department press release.

“Thanks to the dedication and vigilance of law enforcement, this alleged terrorist commander is now in U.S. custody,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said. “As alleged in the complaint, Al-Saadi directed and urged others to attack U.S. and Israeli interests and to kill Americans and Jews in the U.S. and abroad, and in doing so advance the terrorist goals of Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. These charges show American law enforcement will never let such evil go unchecked and will use all tools to disrupt and dismantle foreign terrorist organizations and their leaders.”

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Chris Donaldson

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