Ivanka Trump targeted for assassination in alleged IRGC-linked revenge plot over Soleimani killing: Report

US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump was reportedly the target of an assassination plot allegedly linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to a report by the New York Post.

The suspected plot is said to be connected to retaliation for the 2020 US drone strike that killed senior Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad during Donald Trump's presidency.

The suspect, identified as 32-year-old Iraqi national Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, is alleged to have vowed to kill Ivanka Trump as part of a revenge campaign.

According to the report, Al-Saadi had expressed intent to retaliate for Soleimani's killing, the former commander of Iran's elite Quds Force.

A former Iraqi embassy official in Washington, Entifadh Qanbar, told the New York Post that Al-Saadi had been telling others that "we need to kill Ivanka to burn down the house of Trump the way he burned down our house," referring to the US strike.

The report also claims that Al-Saadi shared a map on X highlighting the Florida area where Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner own a property valued at around $24 million.

Alongside the image, he allegedly posted a warning message in Arabic suggesting Americans would not be protected by security measures, and that surveillance and planning were underway as part of a future retaliation effort.

Al-Saadi was arrested in Turkey on 15 May and later extradited to the United States. US prosecutors have charged him in connection with 18 alleged attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and North America.

Authorities allege his involvement in a range of violent incidents, including a firebombing at the Bank of New York Mellon building in Amsterdam in March, a stabbing incident involving two Jewish victims in London in April, and a shooting near the US consulate in Toronto.

He is also accused of planning or facilitating additional attacks targeting Jewish institutions, including a synagogue bombing in Liège, Belgium, and an arson attack on a temple in Rotterdam.

Investigators further claim he maintained links with Kata'ib Hezbollah and Iran's IRGC.

Elizabeth Tsurkov, a senior fellow at the Washington-based New Lines Institute who was previously kidnapped in Baghdad in 2023 before being released, was cited by the New York Post as saying Al-Saadi had close connections to Iranian military networks.

She also alleged that he grew up mainly in Baghdad with his Iraqi mother before later receiving training in Tehran under IRGC supervision.

Court filings reportedly contain images of Al-Saadi alongside Qasem Soleimani at military sites, where he is seen reviewing maps and operational materials.

In one post published months after Soleimani's death, he allegedly wrote that he would withdraw from social media and shut down his phones until the defeat of the United States, framing it as a commitment to either "victory or martyrdom."

Al-Saadi is currently being held in solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.