A 21-year-old woman “lures a man she met on Plenty of Fish to a Vegas hotel, blindfolds him and stabs him in the neck in retaliation for the drone strike that killed General Qassem Soleimani in 2020.
- Police have arrested 21-year-old Nika Nikubin after she allegedly lured a man she met on dating site Plenty of Fish into bed, only to attack him with a knife.
- Police said Nikubin and her date rented a room at the Sunset Station Hotel, where she blindfolded the victim as they began having sex.
- A few minutes later, the victim said he “felt pain on the side of his neck” after Nikubin allegedly pulled a knife from her purse and stabbed him in the neck.
- According to the police report, the stabbing was allegedly inflicted “in retaliation against U.S. forces for the 2020 assassination of Qassem Sulemani.”
Las Vegas police have arrested a woman who allegedly stabbed her girlfriend, whom she met online, in retaliation for a US drone strike that killed an Iranian military leader in 2020.
The Henderson Police Department charged 21-year-old Nika Nikubin with attempted murder last Saturday after she allegedly lured a man she met on dating site Plenty of Fish into bed only to attack him with a knife, Las reports. Vegas Review-Journal.
Police said Nikubin and an unidentified companion shared a room together at the Sunset Station Hotel on March 5, where the 21-year-old turned off the lights and they began having sex.
Nikubin suggested that she blindfold her lover, but, closing his eyes, she allegedly reached into her purse, pulled out a knife and stabbed him twice in the neck.
The Henderson Police Department charged 21-year-old Nika Nikubin (pictured) with attempted murder.
Police say Nikubin’s (pictured) alleged attack on her date was “in retaliation against U.S. forces for the 2020 assassination of Qasem Sulemani.”
Police said Nikubin and her date rented a room at the Sunset Station Hotel, where she blindfolded the victim as they began having sex.
According to police, the victim said he “felt pain in the side of his neck” and was able to push Nikoubin off him, leave the room and call 911.
Police said Nikubin also ran out of the room and told a hotel employee that she had just stabbed the man.
Nikubin later told police that she stabbed her girlfriend because she “wanted revenge” but didn’t want to kill him.
According to the police report, she explained that she wanted “to get revenge on US forces for the killing of Qassem Sulemani in 2020.”
It is not clear why she decided to take revenge on her date.
“She reported injustices, in particular the killing of Qasem Soleimani in Iran,” the police report said.
Iranian General Soleimani was killed when a US MQ-9 Reaper drone fired missiles at his convoy as it left Baghdad airport in 2020.
Soleimani was the head of Iran’s al-Quds division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and was seen as responsible for Tehran’s support for Shiite proxies that are causing unrest in the Middle East.
He was often called the most powerful figure in the country after its supreme leader.
After his death, a UN expert stated that without an immediate threat to life, the strike was illegal.
Iranian General Qassem Soleimani (pictured) was killed when a US MQ-9 Reaper drone fired missiles at his convoy as it left Baghdad airport in 2020.
Police said Nikubin “reported injustice, in particular the killing of Qasem Soleimani in Iran.”
Nothing is known about the current condition of the victim, reports Review-Journal.
According to her Facebook page, Nikubin is a Las Vegas resident who previously worked as a front desk clerk at Cycle Bar.
Her biography also stated that she attended UCLA where she was part of the varsity debate team.
A 2020 UCLA debate group post listed Nikubin as a third-year student and stated that 2020 was her first year as a JV coach.
On February 23, she checked into Las Vegas, one of her last posts.
Nikubin is charged with attempted murder, battery and business theft.
She is currently on $60,000 bail and due to appear in court on March 24.
UN expert says strike on Soleimani was illegal without imminent threat to life
