ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Mohammed al-Saadi, a commander in the Iran-backed Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah recently arrested by the US, plotted to kill US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka in retaliation for the killing of Qasem Soleimani of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in 2020, The New York Post reported Friday.

The report by the US outlet cited sources claiming that Saadi, who was arrested by federal agents in Turkey and subsequently taken to New York to be tried on a host of terror offenses, sought to avenge the death of Soleimani, who had served as something of a mentor for the Iraqi.

Saadi's X account features a 2021 post containing a map showing the area where Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, own a home in Florida, captioned with an Arabic-language threat warning that “neither your palaces nor the Secret Service will protect you.”

"I told you, our revenge is a matter of time, nothing more," he added.

A later repost of the map in 2023 features a caption warning the US to "not attack innocent young people and do not test our patience," listing a series of Iran-linked attacks that include "the martyrdom operation in Burgas, Bulgaria," likely referring to a 2012 suicide bombing of an Israeli tourist bus in the area that killed six people.

The report cited Entifadh Qanbar, a former deputy military attaché at the Iraqi embassy in Washington, as saying Saadi had spoken openly about targeting Ivanka Trump.

US prosecutors allege Saadi was involved in mutliple attacks on Western soil, including the firebombing of a Bank of New York Mellon office in Amsterdam, a shooting at the US consulate building in Toronto, and assaults on Jewish targets in Europe.

"In the span of just three months, Mohammad al-Saadi allegedly directed 18 terrorist attacks throughout Europe—including against United States citizens and interests—and planned to conduct a similar attack here in our country," said Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's New York field office, James Barnacle, following his arrest.

The White House did not immediately comment on the alleged assassination plot, according to the New York Post report.

Kataib Hezbollah is a powerful Iran-aligned militia within Iraq and has repeatedly attacked US interests, with Washington having designated the group a terrorist organization and imposed sanctions on its officials.

The group has long had an intimate relationship with Iran's IRGC, especially during the tenure of its late Quds Force commander Soleimani, who was killed in a Trump-directed strike at Baghdad International Airport in 2020 alongside former deputy chief of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

Saadi himself appears in multiple photos alongisde the deceased Iranian general.