Henderson Sex-Stabbing Was Revenge For Iran Leader's Death: Cops

HENDERSON, NV — A woman blindfolded and stabbed a man in the neck as they were having sex at Sunset Station in retaliation for the 2020 drone killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard commander, police said.

Nika Nikoubin, 21, met a man on the dating app Plenty of Fish, and the two rented a room at Sunset Station on March 5, Henderson police wrote in an arrest report obtained by KLAS-TV. As they had sex, she blindfolded the man and switched off the lights, the report said. Several minutes later, he "felt a pain on the side of his neck," according to the police report.

Police said Nikoubin stabbed him in the neck "for revenge against U.S. troops for the killing of Qasem Solemani in 2020," the TV station reported. He pushed her off, sprinted out of the room and called police.

Nikoubin also ran out of the room and told a hotel worker she had just stabbed a man, KLAS reported.

She later told investigators she "wanted revenge" and had listened to a song called “Grave Digger" that gave her the motivation to carry out her revenge, police said according to KLAS.

“She advised that there are injustices, in particular the killing of Qasem Soleimani in Iran,” Homeland Security detectives wrote in the arrest report, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported. “Nikoubin stated she wanted revenge.”

Nikoubin said she wanted to wound the man but did not plan to kill him when she stabbed him twice, the newspaper reported.

Online court records obtained by Patch showed Nikoubin was charged with attempted murder, battery with a deadly weapon and burglary of a business. She was held on $60,000 bail and scheduled to appear in court next week.

The U.S. killed Soleimani, Iran’s top general and the architect of Tehran’s proxy wars in the Middle East, in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport in January 2020. At the time, the Defense Department said it killed him because he “was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.” It also accused Soleimani of approving attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Soleimani “the international face of resistance.” Khamenei declared three days of public mourning for the general’s death and warned that a “harsh retaliation” would befall the U.S.