Woman stabbed date in 'revenge' for U.S. killing of Iranian general: police

Police photo of Nika Nikoubin

Henderson Police Division picture of Nika Nikoubin, 21. (Henderson Police Division through AP)

HENDERSON, NEV. --
A girl stabbed her date whom she had met on-line in retaliation for the 2020 loss of life of an Iranian army chief killed in an American drone strike, police stated.


Nika Nikoubin, 21, has been charged with tried homicide, battery with a lethal weapon and housebreaking, KLAS-TV reported.


Nikoubin and the person met on-line on a relationship web site, Henderson police wrote in an arrest report. The pair then agreed to satisfy at Sundown Station lodge on March 5, renting a room collectively.


Whereas within the room, the pair started having intercourse when Nikoubin put a blindfold on the person, police stated. Nikoubin then turned off the lights, and a number of other minutes later, the person "felt a ache on the facet of his neck," KLAS reported.


Nikoubin reportedly stabbed the person within the neck "for revenge towards U.S. troops for the killing of Qassem Soleimani in 2020," police wrote in a report.


U.S. forces killed Soleimani , a prime basic in Iran's army, in a drone strike in January 2020. Soleimani headed the expeditionary Quds Power of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. answerable for the Islamic Republic's overseas operations. He gained prominence for advising Shiite paramilitary forces combating the Islamic State group in Iraq, earlier than it was defeated in 2017.


After the stabbing, the person pushed Nikoubin off of him and ran out of the room to name 911, police stated.


Nikoubin additionally ran out of the room, telling a lodge worker that she had simply stabbed a person, police stated.


When speaking to police, Nikoubin instructed an investigator "she wished revenge," police stated. She stated she had listened to a music known as "Grave Digger," which "gave her the motivation to hold out her revenge."


The person's present situation was not out there, the Las Vegas Evaluation Journal reported.


Nikoubin is scheduled to look in court docket for a preliminary listening to March 24, the newspaper stated, It is not clear if she has a lawyer but.

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