Sunset Station Stabbing: Accused Iran ‘Avenger’ Faces Mental Health Exam
A UCLA pupil who allegedly stabbed her cyberspace escort during gender in a Sagebrush State hotel room in “revenge” for the assassination of an Iranian language superior general will undergo a competency evaluation to regard if she is scene to place upright trial.
Nika Nikoubin, 21, testament come along before a Nevada nation justice on Apr 15, according to courtyard documents. The jurist testament find if she understands the charges against her. These include felony attempted dispatch and battery with a deathly weapon.
Nikoubin remains inward custody on $60,000 bail following her stoppage for the Mar 5 attempt at the Sunset Station casino-hotel inwards Henderson.
Basic Instincts
Nikoubin met her unnamed victim on the dating website Plenty of Fish, and the couple agreed to play at the casino, where they rented a room. They began imbibition and and then started having sex, according to the stoppage report.
Nikoubin climbed on top out of the man and blindfolded him before turning sour the lights, constabulary said. At i point, the dupe felt up his particular date arrive at for something on the nightstand and and so experient pain in the neck on the face of his neck.
He screamed and Nikoubin fled from the hotel room. Realizing he had been stabbed, the dupe staggered into the hall for help. Ultimately, he survived his injuries.
Meanwhile, Nikoubin told a cassino employee she had just stabbed someone.
When the police force arrived, she told them she had attacked the piece in retaliation for the putting to death of Qassem Soleimani inward a Jan 2020 targeted US drone on expunge inward Iraq.
Designated Terrorist
Soleimani was the head up of the expeditionary Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. He was considered past some analysts to be the back to the highest degree powerful piece inward Islamic Republic of Iran after Supreme Leader Cassius Clay Khamenei.
In 2005, the US administration declared Soleimani to live a “terrorist or protagonist of terrorism.” His death, ordered past then-US President Donald Trump, was controversial. It was the 1st targeted bourdon putting to death of a senior strange government activity functionary on the soil of a thirdly country, and it was possibly illegal under US and international law, according to critics.
The US government activity said Soleimani was provision attacks on US embassies.
Iranian armed forces responded past launching ballistic missiles at II US bases inward Iraq. The attacks resulted inward no casualties, but caused traumatic mental capacity injuries inwards o'er 100 US troops, according to the Pentagon.
Nikoubin’s social media profiles paint her as an unlikely terrorist. Originally from Lubbock, Texas, she was a member of her mellow shoal cheerleading team up and ran for school prexy before attending UCLA to work philosophy. While there, she was chairman of a college public debate team up that appeared inwards subject competitions.
It is unclear whether her dupe had links to the US military.