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Hannah Smith
A woman has been charged with attempted murder after stabbing her date in the neck in apparent 'revenge' for the assassination of one of Iran's top military generals.
Nika Nikoubin, 21, was arrested in Las Vegas after allegedly carrying out the brutal attack on a man she had met on an online dating platform.
The pair rented a room together at a hotel, and were having sex when Nikoubin is alleged to have put a blindfold on her date, and switched the lights off. According to a statement given by the man to Henderson Police, after several minutes he suddenly 'felt a pain in the side of his neck,' and realised he'd been stabbed with a sharp object.
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The man managed to push Nikoubin off him, and ran out of the hotel room to call the police. Nikoubin reportedly also left the room, and informed a hotel employee that she had just stabbed someone.
The police report, which was obtained by local news station KLAS-TV, stated that Nikoubin had claimed to have launched the attack 'for revenge against US troops for the killing of Qassem Soleimani in 2020.'
Qassem Soleimani was one of Iran's top military generals, and the leader of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps - a designated terror organisation that the United States says has been responsible for a number of operations carried out by Iranian forces on foreign soil.
Considered the second most powerful man in Iran behind the country's leader, Supreme Leader Khamenei, Soleimani was killed in a targeted drone attack in Baghdad, Iraq on January 3 2020, with the US Department of Defense stating that the strike had been ordered 'at the direction of the President [Donald Trump]' to prevent 'imminent' attacks on Americans which Soleimani was said to have been planning.
His death sparked widespread fury across Iran, which retaliated by carrying out a number of missile strikes on American bases in Iraq.
When speaking to police following her arrest, ABC reports that Nikoubin said she had 'wanted revenge' and had been 'given the motivation' to carry out her attack by listening to a song called Grave Digger.
She's now been charged with attempted murder, battery with a deadly weapon and burglary, with a preliminary court hearing set for March 24.
The condition of the man whom she attacked is currently unknown.
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