A woman stabbed her partner, whom she had just met on a Las Vegas dating site, in revenge for the death of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a 2020 US-led drone attack, police said .
Nika Nikoubin, 21, has been charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and burglary, KLAS-TV reported.
In their report, police said Nikoubin and his victim met on a dating site, before agreeing to meet in a room at the Sunset Station hotel in Las Vegas on March 5.
In the bedroom, the two partners began having sex when Nikoubin blindfolded his victim, police said. She then turned off the lights, and a few minutes later the man “felt pain on the side of his neck”.
Nika Nikoubin allegedly stabbed the man in the neck “in revenge against US troops for the 2020 murder of Qassem Soleimani,” Henderson police wrote in their report.
US forces killed Soleimani, a high-ranking general in the Iranian military, in a drone attack in January 2020. Soleimani led the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, a terrorist group responsible for the foreign operations of the Islamic Republic.
After the stab wound, the man managed to push Nikoubin away, get out of the room, and call the emergency services, police said.
The assailant also left the room, before confessing to a hotel employee that she had just stabbed a man.
Questioned by the police, Nika Nikoubin claimed that she “wanted revenge”, and that she had listened to a song called “Grave Digger” (gravedigger), which “gave her the motivation to carry out her revenge”.
The victim’s condition has not been released, while Nika Nikoubin is due to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on March 24.
