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Ivanka Trump ‘targeted in Iran-backed assassination plot’

Ivanka Trump ‘targeted in Iran-backed assassination plot’

Published by Sam Flores

Ivanka Trump was reportedly the target of an assassination plot at the hands of an alleged IRGC-trained terrorist. Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, planned to kill the US president’s eldest daughter, 44, as “revenge” for the death of his mentor, Qassim Soleimani, the New York Post reported. The Iraqi national had apparently “pledged” to end Ms Trump’s life and had a blueprint of her home on the exclusive Indian Creek Island near Miami Beach, Florida, sources told the newspaper. Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad in 2020. Donald Trump celebrated his death as a personal win. “We caught him in the act and terminated him,” the US president said at the time, later describing Soleimani as an “evil genius”. The IRGC is a powerful, parallel branch of the Iranian Armed Forces that, among other things, conducts covert activities outside of Iran – Fatemeh Bahrami/Getty Images Mr Al-Saadi reportedly became fixated with the idea of burning down “the house of Trump the …

Iraqi man accused of NYC synagogue plot after attacks in Europe and Canada in response to Iran war

Iraqi man accused of NYC synagogue plot after attacks in Europe and Canada in response to Iran war

Published by Sam Flores

NEW YORK (AP) — An Iraqi national accused of plotting at least 18 terror attacks in Europe in retaliation for the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran, including firebombing a bank in Amsterdam and stabbing Jewish men in London, has been arrested and charged with supporting Iran-backed terrorist organizations. According to a complaint unsealed Friday in federal court in Manhattan, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi sought to attack a New York City synagogue last month and provided an undercover law enforcement officer with photos and maps of Jewish centers in Los Angeles and Scottsdale, Arizona, that he planned to target. Al-Saadi is also accused of involvement in two recent attacks in Canada: an attack on a synagogue and a shooting at the U.S. consulate in Toronto in March. U.S. prosecutors said he directed and urged other people to attack U.S. and Israeli interests, including by killing Americans and Jews. Al-Saadi posted about the attacks on Snapchat and Telegram and spoke about them in phone calls recorded by an FBI informant whose help he solicited in …