AN IRANIAN woman has been accused of stabbing her online date to avenge an Iranian military leader who was killed in an American drone strike in 2020.
Nika Nikoubin, 21, has been charged with attempted murder after attacking a man she met on a dating site while they were in bed together at a Las Vegas hotel, police said.
Nikoubin and the man, who has not yet been identified, met on the dating site Plenty of Fish. After talking online, the pair decided to meet up at the Sunset Station Hotel on March 5.
According to police reports, the two rented a room together on the 14th floor of the hotel. In the room, the pair began to have sex.
Nikoubin turned off the lights and put a blindfold on the man as they were hooking up, police say.
After covering up his eyes, Nikoubin reportedly retrieved the knife from her purse and stabbed her date twice in the neck. The man said that he “felt a pain on the side of his neck,” KLAS-TV reported.
Nikoubin reportedly attacked this man as “revenge against U.S. troops for the killing of Qassem Soleimani in 2020,” according to the police report.
American forces assassinated Soleimani, Iran’s top general, in a drone strike personally approved by Donald Trump in January of 2020.
After the man realized he’d been stabbed, he pushed Nikoubin off of him and ran out of the room to call the police, according to authorities.
Police said Nikoubin ran out of the room after him and told a hotel employee that she had just stabbed a man.
The police report said that Nikoubin told investigators that “she wanted revenge.”
She also reportedly said that a song called “Grave Digger” gave her the “motivation” to carry out her revenge.
The victim’s current condition is not known.
According to Nikoubin’s social media, she attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
An old Facebook post listed Nikoubin as a member of UCLA’s debate team and said that 2020 was her first year as a JV coach.
Nikoubin will face a preliminary hearing in court on March 24 for charges of attempted murder, battery, and burglary of a business.
She is currently being held on bail set at $60,000.
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