Ivanka Trump, the daughter of US President Donald Trump and the wife of key US negotiator Jared Kushner, was the target of an Iranian assassination plot, the New York Post reported Friday.

The newspaper identified the suspect as Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, a 32-year-old militia commander in Iraq’s Kataeb Hezbollah and operative of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who was arrested and charged last week by the US Justice Department for several recent attacks on Jewish targets in Europe and North America.

According to the report, al-Saadi made a “pledge” to kill Ivanka Trump in retaliation for the killing of IRGC Quds Force chief Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad in 2020 during her father’s first term in office.

A former Iraqi defense official was quoted as saying that al-Saadi told several people after Soleimani’s assassination that “we need to kill Ivanka to burn down the house of Trump the way he burned down our house,” adding that “we heard that he had a plan of Ivanka’s house in Florida.”

The report noted al-Saadi previously shared a satellite image of the Florida enclave where Ivanka Trump and Kusher, which was accompanied by the threat in Arabic for Americans to “look at this........

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