HENDERSON (Nev.) — In retaliation to the 2020 killing of an Iranian military leader in an American drone strike in response, a woman stabbed her friend online, police claimed.
KLAS TV reported that Nika Nikoubin (21), has been charged with attempted killing, battery with a deadly instrument and burglary.
According to Henderson police, Nikoubin met the man online through a dating site. They agreed to meet at Sunset Station hotel, March 5, and share a room.
Police said that the pair started having sex in the room when Nikoubin placed a blindfold over the man. KLAS reported that Nikoubin turned off the lights and the man felt a “pain on his neck” shortly after.
Police reported that Nikoubin allegedly stabbed the victim in the neck to “revenge against U.S. soldiers for the murder of Qassem Solimani in 2020”, according to police.
In a drone strike on January 2020, U.S. forces shot down Soleimani, an Iranian military general. Soleimani was the commander of the expeditionary Quds Forceof Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. Responsible for foreign operations of the Islamic Republic. Before the defeat of Islamic State in 2017, he was a prominent advisor to Shiite paramilitary troops fighting against it.
Police said that Nikoubin was pushed off by the attacker and fled the room to call 911.
Nikoubin ran out of the hotel, telling an employee she had just stabbed someone, police said.
Nikoubin said that she wanted revenge when talking to police. Nikoubin said that she had listened “Grave Digger” and it gave her the motivation to take her revenge.
The Las Vegas Review Journal reported that the man’s current health status was unknown.
Nikoubin will appear before the court March 24 for a preliminary hearing.