A woman stabbed her date while they were having sex and said it was in revenge for the death of an Iranian commander

A 21-year-old woman stabbed her date inside a hotel room in Nevada, in the United States, in retaliation for the death of an Iranian military leader in a US drone attack in 2020.

Nika Nikoubin, 21, was charged with attempted murder, two counts of assault and robbery in a business. She is being held on $60,000 bail, local media reported.

Nikoubin and the man, whom she met on the dating website Plenty of Fish, agreed to meet at the Sunset Station Hotel and Casino in Henderson, on March 5, and rented a room together, police in the city near Las Vegas said.

When the couple began to have sex, Nikoubin put a blindfold on the man before turning off the lights. Several minutes later, the man “felt a pain in the side of his neck,” KLAS-TV reported.

Police said she stabbed him in the neck “as revenge against US troops for the murder of Qassem Soleimani in 2020″.

Soleimani, the top general who headed the Quds Expeditionary Force of the Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran, had been responsible for the Islamic Republic's foreign operations.

He gained prominence for advising the Shia paramilitary forces fighting ISIS in Iraq before it was defeated in 2017.

After the stabbing, the victim pushed Nikoubin, fled the room and called 911, police said.

According to authorities Nikoubin told a hotel employee that he had just stabbed a man, minutes after he fled from the room.

The investigator in the case confessed that he “wanted revenge”, stating that he had listened to a song called “Grave Digger” (digging graves), which “gave him the motivation to carry out his revenge”.

Nikoubin told detectives that he just wanted to hurt the man, not kill him, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, citing the police report.

The young woman was arrested and given a $60,000 bail. He is expected to appear in court on March 24.

Authorities said Nikoubin has no ties to the Las Vegas community.

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