Turkish authorities have extradited to the United States an Iraqi man associated with the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who was preparing an assassination attempt on Ivanka Trump.
Entifad Kanbar, former deputy military attache at the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, said the man told people: “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 32-year-old Mohammad Baker Saad Dawud al-Saadi was associated not only with the IRGC but also with the Shiite movement Kataib Hezbollah. He wanted to kill Ivanka Trump in retaliation for the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by American forces in 2020. Al-Saadi posted on social networks a map of the area where Ivanka resides and wrote threats in Arabic.
Al-Saadi was detained in Turkey on May 15. In the United States, he is accused of organizing and coordinating attacks on American and Jewish targets in Western countries. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 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. The Iraqi man allegedly personally communicated with General Soleimani and was trained in the ranks of the IRGC. When arrested, authorities found an Iraqi official passport in his possession.
