New York : As the US launched an offensive against Iran, back home in Washington, a diabolical plot to assassinate President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka unravelled. Ivanka, who served as Trump’s adviser during his first term, was targeted for assassination by a terrorist trained by Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The 32-year-old Iraqi national had “pledged” to kill Ivanka in response to Trump, during his first term as US President, eliminating Iranian military chief Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in 2020. Soleimani, a shadowy figure who headed the IRGC’s Quds Force, was killed in a drone strike near Baghdad airport on January 3, 2020.
In 2021, Al-Saadi also posted on X a picture of a map showing the Florida enclave where Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, have a $24 million residence. With the picture, he also posted a chilling threat: “Revenge is a matter of time. 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, the message, originally posted in Arabic, read.
“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’,” Entifadh Qanbar, a former military official in the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, told The Post. The startling revelation has put Al-Saadi and his criminal history into focus. Long in the US’s crosshairs, Al-Saadi is believed to be the mastermind behind several attacks on US and Jewish targets, including the bombing of the Bank of New York Mellon in Amsterdam in March this year.
Not only Iran’s IRGC, Al-Saadi was also an operative of Kata’ib Hizballah, an Iraqi Shia paramilitary group backed by Tehran. The Kata’ib Hizballah has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the US. So, how did Al-Saadi become so close to Soleimani that he went to the extent of plotting to assassinate the US President’s daughter? For that we need to look at his history and childhood.
At a very young age, he was sent to Tehran to train with the IRGC, which reports directly to the Supreme Leader and functions separately from the Iranian military. However, in 2006, tragedy stuck the family when Al-Saadi’s father died. Then, according to Qanbar, Soleimani became Al-Saadi’s biggest support and guide. They eventually became close and Al-Saadi looked up to him as a father figure.
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