Ivanka Trump Assassination Plot: Details of Iranian Training and Link to Hezbollah Brigades

The New York Post revealed details of targeting Ivanka, the daughter of US President Donald Trump, in an assassination plot attributed to an individual said to have received training from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

According to the newspaper, the Iraqi Muhammad Baqir Saad Dawood al-Saadi, 32, pledged to kill Ivanka Trump and possessed a map of her home in Florida, as part of what was described as an attempt to avenge the killing of Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran's Quds Force, who was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad six years ago.

According to what was stated by the former deputy military attaché at the Iraqi embassy in Washington, Intifad Qanbar, al-Saadi used to repeat after Soleimani's killing: "We must kill Ivanka to burn Trump's house as he burned our house," adding that information spoke of him possessing a map of her home in Florida, while a second source confirmed to the newspaper the existence of the map.

The reports indicated that al-Saadi published on the X platform a picture of a map showing the area where the home of Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner is located, worth $24 million, accompanied by a message in Arabic that read: "I tell the Americans, look at this picture and know that your palaces and the Secret Service will not protect you. We are now in the monitoring and analysis phase. I told you that our revenge is a matter of time."

According to the newspaper, al-Saadi is a prominent figure in Iraqi and Iranian armed circles, and was arrested in Turkey on May 15, before being handed over to the United States, where he faces charges related to 18 attacks and attempted attacks in Europe and the United States, according to the US Department of Justice.

The charges include involvement in attacks targeting American and Jewish targets, including throwing incendiary bombs at the Bank of New York Mellon in Amsterdam during March, stabbing two Jewish individuals in London during April, and opening fire on the US consulate building in Toronto, in addition to planning attacks against Jews, including bombing a synagogue in the city of Liège, Belgium, and burning a temple in Rotterdam.

The newspaper also stated that al-Saadi is accused of planning and coordinating other attacks that were thwarted inside the United States against the backdrop of the current conflict in the Middle East.

Ivanka Trump had converted to Orthodox Judaism in 2009 before her marriage to Jared Kushner, while the White House did not respond to the newspaper's request for comment on the allegations of the assassination plot.

The reports indicated that al-Saadi is linked to both the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The newspaper quoted Elizabeth Tsurkov, a prominent researcher at the New Lines Institute in Washington, who was kidnapped in Baghdad in 2023 and held by the Hezbollah Brigades for 903 days before being released in September 2025, as saying that al-Saadi's relationship with Soleimani represented a "great achievement" for the Iraqi factions he worked with.

Tsurkov added that al-Saadi maintained a close relationship with Soleimani's successor, Ismail Qaani, who continued to provide him with the necessary resources for his armed networks.

According to Qanbar, al-Saadi considered Soleimani as a father after the death of his father Ahmad Kazemi, an Iranian general who died in 2006.

He explained that al-Saadi grew up in Baghdad with his Iraqi mother, before being sent to Tehran to train with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

He also reported that al-Saadi later founded a travel agency specializing in religious trips, which he used to travel around the world and communicate with "armed cells," as he described it.

Qanbar added that al-Saadi was carrying an Iraqi service passport at the time of his arrest, a travel document granted to government employees requiring the approval of the Iraqi Prime Minister; which allowed him to travel freely and obtain facilities at Iraqi airports, in addition to facilitating his obtaining visas for countries where he is suspected of planning attacks.

The reports mentioned that he was on his way to Russia when he was detained.

The newspaper pointed out that al-Saadi was active on social media; he posted pictures of himself near tourist landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, in addition to pictures while rafting and others in front of a missile with his hand on his chest.

The federal indictment included pictures of him with Soleimani inside what appeared to be a military facility, examining maps and equipment, after he posted them on his Snapchat account, according to court documents.

In August 2020, al-Saadi posted on X a picture of Soleimani and another person killed with him in the US strike, and wrote: "I will leave social media and close all my phones until the American enemy is defeated... Victory or martyrdom," according to court documents.

But the reports clarified that his disconnection from social media did not last long; as in 2025 he published what he described as his "last tweet," referring to Soleimani and other Iranian leaders killed in US strikes as "martyrs."

The newspaper also mentioned that he used to send direct threats to some of his potential victims via Snapchat and social media platforms, including pictures of a pistol equipped with a silencer.

Al-Saadi is currently held in solitary confinement at the federal detention center in Brooklyn, which also houses Luigi Mangione and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, while his lawyer did not respond to requests for comment made by the newspaper.