A girl going through costs for stabbing a person she was on a date with has claimed a weird motivation: political revenge.
Nika Nikoubin, 21, was arrested on March 5 for stabbing a person on the Sundown Station resort in Henderson, Nevada, a part of the Las Vegas metropolitan space. She and the person, whose title has not been launched to the general public, agreed to fulfill on the location for a date, in response to 8 Information Now.
As soon as of their rented room, the 2 started participating in sexual actions that culminated in Nikoubin blindfolding the person and turning off the lights. After a couple of minutes, the person stated that he "felt a ache on the facet of his neck" as Nikoubin proceeded to stab him within the neck twice. After the preliminary assault, he was reportedly in a position to push the girl off of him and name 911.
When confronted by regulation enforcement, Nikoubin claimed to have attacked her date "for revenge in opposition to U.S. troops for the killing of Qassem Soleimani in 2020."
A high-ranking army chief in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Soleimani led the Corps' Quds Power, a division centered on clandestine and extraterritorial operations. In January 2020, he was assassinated in a focused drone strike ordered by former U.S. President Donald Trump, sparking a serious worldwide outcry and heightening tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
As her sufferer rushed to name 911, Nikoubin additionally ran out of the room. She fled to the resort's foyer and an worker that she had simply stabbed somebody.
The police report filed in Nikoubin's case notes that she advised officers "she needed revenge" for the 2020 incident. She additionally defined how she had been listening to a tune referred to as "Grave Digger," which motivated her to plan and perform the assault. She claimed that her plan was solely to hurt the sufferer, not kill him. Officers have decided that she shouldn't be from Las Vegas and has no connection to the local people.
"She suggested that there are injustices, specifically the killing of Qasem Soleimani in Iran," homeland safety detectives serving to with the case added to the arrest report, in response to the Las Vegas Overview-Journal. "Nikoubin acknowledged she needed revenge."
Nikoubin now faces costs of tried homicide, battery with a lethal weapon, and housebreaking. Her bail was set at $60,000. The situation of her sufferer is unknown right now.
Newsweek reached out to the Henderson Police Division for a touch upon this story.