A senior Iran-backed Iraqi militia operative now in U.S. custody was reportedly plotting to assassinate Ivanka Trump as part of a revenge campaign over the killing of Qasem Soleimani, according to reporting first published by the New York Post. The alleged target was not random: Ivanka is the daughter of President Trump, whose administration carried out the strike that killed Soleimani, the IRGC-Quds Force chief, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the Kata’ib Hezbollah leader, near Baghdad in 2020.

According to the report, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi posted a map of Ivanka’s Florida home and issued threats in Arabic suggesting surveillance had begun and revenge was only a matter of time.

The Ivanka allegation sits on top of a much larger federal terrorism case. The Justice Department says Al-Saadi, 32, is an Iraqi national and senior member of Kata’ib Hizballah, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, and that he operated with ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He has been charged by federal complaint with six terrorism-related offenses tied to “nearly 20 attacks and attempted attacks” across Europe and the United States. He was transferred into U.S. custody overseas, brought before a federal magistrate judge in Manhattan and ordered detained pending trial.

Federal filings describe Al-Saadi not as a fringe online radical, but as a figure embedded inside Iran’s proxy architecture. The complaint says he worked closely with Soleimani and al-Muhandis, maintained relationships with other U.S.-designated terrorist leaders, and used Snapchat, Telegram and X accounts to promote the agendas of Kata’ib Hizballah and the IRGC. Investigators say his accounts featured photos of him with Soleimani, including at what appeared to be a military-related facility with maps and equipment.

The alleged campaign was not limited to threats against the Trump family. Prosecutors say Al-Saadi and associates used a front called Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya, described in the complaint as a component of Kata’ib Hizballah, to claim or promote attacks against U.S., Israeli and Jewish targets. The case file lists a synagogue bombing in Liège, an explosives attack near a Jewish school in Amsterdam, an attack on a Bank of New York Mellon building in Amsterdam, arson against Hatzalah ambulances in London, attacks on Jewish targets in Belgium and the United Kingdom, and the stabbing of two Jewish men in London, one of them a dual U.S.-British citizen.

The U.S. plot, according to prosecutors, was already operational. Al-Saadi allegedly asked an FBI source for someone who could carry out attacks in America, was introduced to an undercover law-enforcement officer posing as a Mexican cartel member, and then sent photographs and maps of a prominent New York synagogue as well as Jewish centers in Los Angeles and Scottsdale, Arizona. Prosecutors say he discussed whether to use an IED or fire, agreed to pay $10,000 in cryptocurrency, and sent an initial $3,000 payment for the New York synagogue attack. In one recorded exchange, he pressed for speed: “I wanna see good news tonight.”

That is what makes the Ivanka report so significant. It fits a pattern Washington has been warning about for years: Iran and its proxies turning Soleimani “revenge” into plots against American officials, Jews and Israeli-linked targets far from the Middle East. The Justice Department previously charged an IRGC member in a murder-for-hire plot against former National Security Advisor John Bolton, saying the plot was likely retaliation for Soleimani’s killing.