Las Vegas: In a bizarre incident, a woman stabbed her date in a hotel room in Las Vegas as an act of vengeance for the assassination of Iran's topmost military general who was killed in an American drone strike.
The woman has been identified as a 21-year-old girl going by the name of Nika Nikoubin, and she met the man on the dating website Plenty of fish.
Both of them agreed to meet at the Sunset station hotel and casino in Henderson on March 5 and the police have said that the duo had rented a room together.
As per a report by KLAS, the duo began having sex and this is the moment when Nika put a blindfold on the man and then switched off the lights. Thereafter, the man felt a pain on the side of his neck a couple of minutes later.
According to the police report, the girl reportedly stabbed the man so as to seek revenge against US troops for the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani back in 2020.
After realizing what had happened to him, the man pushed her off and immediately dialled 911. The girl also tried to flee after she confessed about the incident to a hotel employee. The girl revealed to the investigator that she had listened to a song called "Grave Digger, which gave her the impetus to carry out her vengeance.
Meanwhile, the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was ordered by former US President Donald Trump. The strike was carried out by a drone and it took place near Baghdad's airport.
Trump had justified the strike by saying that it was to safeguard US troops stationed in the middle east and added that the attack came in retaliation for a wave of attacks on US military installations in Iraq.
General Soleimani was believed to be the pioneer of Iran's Middle Eastern military strategy and had played an instrumental role in establishing Iranian proxies across the middle east, the likes of which include the Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen among others.
So, his death sent shock waves across the region and sparked fears of a direct military confrontation between decades-old adversaries Washington and Tehran.
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