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An Iranian woman has admitted trying to kill her date PlentyOfFish during sex at a Las Vegas hotel to avenge the assassination of a military leader with an American drone, telling police “it’s only fair that American blood be shed.” .
Nika Nikoubin, 22, has been charged with attempted murder with the use of a deadly weapon due to certain actual or perceived characteristics of a person, and two counts of assault.
He met his victim on the dating website before agreeing to meet the man at the Sunset Station Hotel and they rented a hotel room together before they started drinking.
Henderson police body camera footage shows the moment Nikoubin admitted to officers that he stabbed the man in the neck multiple times while on top of him having “sexual intercourse.”
Nika Nikoubin, 22, was found naked by police officers after stabbing her victim in the neck multiple times in revenge for the 2020 death of Qasem Soleimani.
Recalling the time their sex turned violent, she said: “We were drinking a little bit and then, I guess we started messing around and then I stabbed him.”
The policeman also asked him: ‘Were you planning to meet [the victim] hurt him?
She replied: ‘Yes’.
Nikoubin was then asked: ‘You did it. To kill him or just to hurt him?’
“Hurt him,” she replied.
Nikoubin, who was born in Iran, blindfolded the victim while engaging in sexual activities, turned off the lights, and then stabbed the victim in the neck.
She had moved to Las Vegas the week before the stabbing, and police found her naked in a restroom area on the 14th floor of the hotel after the victim called 911.
Footage from her interview shows her covering herself with a towel and admitting that she met with the victim to ‘hurt’ him, according to fox 8.
Nikoubin later told the officers that he wanted revenge for the US drone strike that killed Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani in 2020, by stabbing the victim with a pink knife.
Asked by officers why he stabbed the man, he said: “I guess out of spite and revenge.” I mean the United States killed Soleimani. Lots of blood spilled.
He met his victim on the dating website before agreeing to meet the man at the hotel and they rented a hotel room together before they started drinking.
General Qassem Soleimani (in the center of the photo) led Iran’s Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Nikoubin said his death was the reason he wanted “American blood” to be shed
She attacked him with a pink kitchen knife after blindfolding him and turning off the lights in a Las Vegas hotel room.
“So I feel it’s only fair that American blood be shed.”
Soleimani was killed in an airstrike ordered by then-President Donald Trump, as he was the right-hand man of the country’s supreme leader.
Trump called him the ‘number one terrorist anywhere in the world’ and ordered his death to protect ‘American diplomats and military’ around the world.
Asked by police officers if he didn’t like Americans, Nikoubin replied: “Americans are great.”
I just don’t think it was fair. I felt like someone on American soil should die because he died too.’
Court documents show the stabbing victim suffered at least two puncture wounds to the neck during the incident.
Nikoubin was diagnosed with generalized anxiety, major depressive disorder and paranoid personality disorder, but a judge ruled that she was competent to stand trial.
She had moved to Las Vegas the week before the stabbing, and cops found her naked in a restroom area on the 14th floor of the hotel (pictured) after the victim called 911.
Footage from her interview shows her covering herself with a towel and admitting that she met the victim to ‘hurt’ him.
Nikoubin was diagnosed with generalized anxiety, major depressive disorder and paranoid personality disorder, but a judge ruled that she was competent to stand trial.
Speaking to the grand jury, his victim said: “He turned the light off and then I started to feel a pressure in my neck, and it got sharp, so I panicked and was like, ‘What the hell are you doing?’
‘I yelled. And I pushed her away from me, you know, still screaming. And then she’s like, ‘I’m sorry,’ and then she runs out of the room.
Nikoubin posted $60,000 bail and was allowed to return to Texas under house arrest.
A spokesman for Nikoubin said she received mental health treatment and was employed pending trial.
He denied any political motivation for Nikoubin’s actions.
Ten people were killed when a drone struck the convoy carrying Soleimani as it left Baghdad airport on January 3, in an attack that sparked anti-US protests in Iran.
Soleimani was the head of Iran’s Quds force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and is believed to be responsible for Tehran’s backing of Shiite proxies that sowed riots in the Middle East.
He was often described as the most powerful figure in the country after its supreme leader.
Last year, a United Nations expert said that without an imminent threat to life, the strike was illegal.
Agnes Callamard, special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, concluded in her report that the United States provided no evidence that would have justified immediate action.
“Major General Soleimani was in charge of Iran’s strategy and military actions in Syria and Iraq,” he said.
“But in the absence of an actual imminent threat to life, the course of action taken by the US was unlawful.”
The attack was an “arbitrary killing” for which the United States is responsible under international human rights law, it concluded.