The news that Ivanka Trump was marked for assassination by an IRGC terrorist is both unsurprising – and chilling.

Especially given the fact that this guy would have gladly harmed her, given the opportunity, and had allegedly worked on plans to do so.

Recently captured Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, made a “pledge” to kill Ivanka and even had a blueprint of her Florida home, sources claimed.

The Iraqi national was allegedly targeting President Donald Trump’s family in response to the killing of Iranian military chief Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike in Baghdad six years ago.

“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,’” Entifadh Qanbar, a former deputy military attaché in the Iraqi embassy in Washington told The Post.

“We heard that he had a plan of Ivanka’s house in Florida,” Qanbar added. A second source also confirmed Al-Saadi’s plot to kill Ivanka.

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.”

Soleimani, as readers will remember, met his end on a tarmac in Iraq as a smoking crater, much to the deep sorrow of The Squad and other Democrats. Well, apparently Al-Saadi agreed with The Squad, and vowed revenge on President Trump.

But why would his target be Ivanka Trump? Granted, the killing of Soleimani took place during the first Trump administration, when Ivanka had a role in the White House. But if the goal was to “burn down the house of Trump,” then why not target Don Junior, or Eric, or Barron? And why Ivanka over Tiffany? Well, let’s not skip over the obvious. Ivanka Trump converted to Judaism when she married Jared Kushner. She is a Jewish mother raising Jewish children. I can’t imagine WHY she would be a target for an IRGC terrorist determined to hurt the Trump family!

And since the Secret Service does not exactly have a stellar record as of late, it makes the threat to Ivanka all the more dangerous.

Did the DOJ know about this BEFORE catching Al-Saadi? If not, that isn’t reassuring.

Al-Saadi is said to be a high-ranking figure in Iraq-Iran terror circles, arrested in Turkey on May 15 and extradited to the US where he is charged with 18 attacks and attempted attacks throughout Europe and the United States, per the Department of Justice.

He’s been behind attacks on US and Jewish targets including the firebombing of the Bank of New York Mellon in Amsterdam in March, the stabbing of two Jewish victims in London in April and a shooting at the US consulate building in Toronto, also in March, according to the DoJ.

He also “planned, coordinated” and allegedly took responsibility for attacks against Jewish people including the bombing of a synagogue in Liège, Belgium, the arson of a temple in Rotterdam in March, according to the feds, as well as various other foiled counter-attacks in the US in response to the current conflict in the Middle East.

Al-Saadi is said to be an operative of both Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s IRGC.

According to Qanbar, Al-Saadi was close to Soleimani, a major general in the IRGC and head of the elite Quds Force, and looked up to him as a father figure after the death of his own dad, Ahmad Kazemi, an Iranian brigadier general, in 2006.

Al-Saadi grew up in Baghdad, and was largely raised by his Iraqi mother, but was sent to Tehran to train with the IRGC, said Qanbar, now president of Future Foundation, a nonprofit whose mission is to strengthen alliances between the US and Iraqi Kurds.

Al-Saadi later established a travel agency, specializing in religious trips allowing him to travel around the world to “connect with terror cells,” Qanbar alleged to The Post.

When arrested in Turkey last week, Al-Saadi also had an Iraqi service passport, a special travel document issued to government employees and civil servants of that country, which can only be obtained with the consent of the Iraqi Prime Minister, Qanbar told The Post.

Al-Saadi gave himself a large digital footprint and had freedom of movement, so he clearly was not worried about being captured. His social media will likely be Exhibit A in the courtroom.

Surprisingly for an alleged prominent terror figure, Al-Saadi was very visible on social media. Posts show him standing next to tourist attractions including the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur as well as selfies kayaking and posing in front of a missile with his hand over his heart.

The federal indictment against Al-Saadi also includes photos of him consulting with Soleimani, at what appears to be a military facility, poring over maps and other equipment, which he had posted on his Snapchat account, according to the court documents.

In August, 2020, seven months after Soleimani was killed, Al-Saadi posted to his X account an image of Soleimani and another military figure killed in the same US drone strike held by a militant with an AK-47, captioned: “I will leave social media and turn off all my phones until the American enemy is defeated …victory or martyrdom,” according to federal court documents.

However, the social media blackout didn’t last long for the digital blabbermouth. In a 2025 post to his X account, which he described as his “last tweet,” Al-Saadi referred to Soleimani and other Iranian military leaders killed in US strikes as “martyrs.”

“I address you while in great shock and intense weakness, a feeling I have never experience in my life except once, at the martyrdom of …Qasem Soleimani,” he wrote, according to court documents.

Al-Saadi also targeted and threatened potential victims with Snapchat messages and social media posts, in many cases sending them a photograph of a pistol with a silencer, according to messages seen by The Post.

He seems charming, doesn’t he?

The Department of Justice announced the charges against Al-Saadi on May 15, and he is being federally prosecuted in the Southern District of New York.

Al-Saadi was charged by complaint 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. Al-Saadi was arrested on the charges contained in the complaint, which was unsealed today, transferred into U.S. custody overseas, and transported to the United States.

The DOJ detailed Al-Saadi’s plans for terror attacks in the United States in the press release.

In addition, in or about April and May 2026, Al-Saadi, on behalf of Kata’ib Hizballah and the IRGC, allegedly attempted to coordinate and carry out terrorist attacks to kill individuals in the United States, including by targeting Jewish institutions in New York, New York, and elsewhere. On or about April 3, 2026, Al-Saadi spoke to an undercover law enforcement officer (“UC-1”) whom Al-Saadi believed could carry out attacks in the United States. That day, Al-Saadi texted UC-1 photographs and maps showing the exact location of a prominent Jewish synagogue located in New York, New York (the “New York Synagogue”), as well as two additional U.S.-based Jewish institutions in Los Angeles, California, and Scottsdale, Arizona, respectively, and directed UC-1 to carry out terrorist attacks against those targets. Al-Saadi also spoke on the phone with UC-1, and discussed with UC-1, with respect to the New York Synagogue, whether UC-1 would use an improvised explosive device or “set the place on fire.” Fortunately, no such attacks occurred at the time.

The assassination plans for Ivanka Trump may have been more of a side quest for Al-Saadi, given his determination to carry out more extensive attacks on Jews within the United States. But it is clear that he had the capability and the motive. All he needed was the opportunity.

This news is deeply disturbing for two reasons. One, it should highlight just how dangerous Iran and their terror proxies still are, because all they need is one or two highly motivated, revenge-driven fanatics to carry out a terror attack within the United States. Second, confidence in the Secret Service has eroded so much in the last few years that if a terrorist had the opportunity to target Ivanka Trump, or her children, is anyone certain that the agency would be able to rise to the occasion?

Featured image: Ivanka Trump in February 2020, official White House portrait by Andrea Hanks, cropped, public domain