Posted on 03/01/2026 5:49:44 PM PST by doc maverick
“Islamabad, Pakistan – Protests erupted across Pakistan on Sunday, with 20 people dead and dozens wounded nationwide, after the United States and Israel confirmed the killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in coordinated air strikes on Tehran. The deaths included 10 people in Karachi, at least eight in Skardu and two in the capital, Islamabad, as demonstrations largely led by members of Pakistan’s Shia Muslim community escalated and security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters.”
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The more they do this crap, the more they confirm that there is no way to live peacefully with them. They are troublemakers wherever they live, and the whole world can see that every time they commit violence and swear revenge.
On Tousi TV it showed that a bunch of IRGC people are escaping to Afghanistan. I hope the Sunnis there tell them to bug off rather than let them hang out there until a new government is formed in Iran and then they go back to Iran to sabotage the new government.
The Shia have been targeted by the Pakistani Taliban with bombs. They are persecuted.
This might push them to armed struggle against the Pakistani state at the same time Pakistan is fighting Afghanistan, the Pakistan Taliban and the Balochistan separatists.
Good news!
Interesting that right now Pakistan is going against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Wheels Within Wheels.
People sort of need to realize that an Ayatollah is more like a Pope than a President. Killing that guy is going to have a lot of repercussions throughout the Islamic world.
This was a big deal. Much bigger than capturing Maduro, who, to be truthful, almost nobody liked anyway. The US will be dealing with the fallout of this operation for decades. Much of the Islamic world is going to look at this as Catholics would at somebody assassinating Leo.
That said, to paraphrase Machevelli, “Enemies should either be left alone or destroyed. Men will take revenge over small slights but are unable to do so against large ones.”
I’m concerned that the replacement government of Iran won’t be better but worse. I’m not convinced “Regime Change” is always a good thing.
However, what would be interesting is if the next government of Iran DID grant things like religious liberty. abolish dress codes and dietary laws. I’ve read that Iran has one of the lowest rates of Mosque attendance of any Islamic nation. (Sorry, I don’t have a reference for that) If Islam is not maintained by force, then Iran, in a few years, might cease to be an Islamic country. But if Iran retreats from Islam because of the totalitarian nature of the Mullahs, that’s going to blow a big gaping hole in a lot of Islamic theology. It will also make Iran hated throughout the Islamic world because Mohammed said, (I am paraphrasing once more.) “once a country becomes Islamic, it must never go back.” I believe that the Quran calls for Jihad on such countries.
Talk about “Wars and rumors of wars.” This could get way too interesting, way too fast
Arabs don’t care for Iranians and vice versa.
“Talk about “Wars and rumors of wars.” This could get way too interesting, way too fast”
We’re living the Chinese curse in spades...
“May you live in interesting times! “
Stupid people — besides their own country is warring against both India and Afghanistan as we type.
That idiot George W. Bush really missed an opportunity to take away all of Pakistan’s nukes when we had 30,000 troops in-country after 9/11. The U.S. could have done any damn thing we wanted to, instead Bush bent over for Musharraf. Look at these savages now. You have to think they will join or replace Iran as a very dangerous threat in the region.
Well Shias, anyway. And Shias who are apocalyptic Mahdi Cultists like Khamenei was. But not all Muslims.
“as demonstrations largely led by members of Pakistan’s Shia Muslim community escalated”.
Today, over 85% of Muslims in the world are Sunni. Sunnis live in over forty Muslim countries as well as parts of Asia and Europe. Only Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan, and Bahrain are predominantly Shiite, although there are also significant populations in Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. It’s important to remember that the cultures of Muslim-majority nations—and, therefore, approaches to practicing Islam—naturally vary in both sects by continent, country, and region. I guess they don’t get along.
AH! Thanks for that explanation...
I was trying to figure out why Pakis would be killing each other because of what we did in Iran, especially when they are in their own little war with Afghanistan.
The Ayatollaha of Iran ruled the country with a bloody fist, knife and gun. Khamenni (sp?) seemed to think he was king, named his son as successor.
By “them” I hope you mean Mohammedans as a whole, whether Shia or Sunni or Ibadi or whatever
Ayatollahs in general are purely clerics like the Ayatollah in Iraq.
However Khamenei was made Ayatollah onky in 1989 when he took power after Khomeini. Ayatollah Khomeini did earn that title, Khamenei did not.
The mosques in Itan are empty on Fridays and have been for nearly 2 decades now. The young look towards Atheism, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity in that order.
Jim, Khamenei was a king. Ok, not the level of autocrat that Putin is, more like Xi. But he was a middling cleric before 1989
Sounds like Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland.
Ayatollah is a title for high-ranking Twelver Shia clergy. It came into widespread usage in the 20th century.That would seem to be a drop in the bucket compared to the large Sunni brand of Islam. The Arabs don't care much for Iranians anyway. The non-Arab Pakistanis don't hate the Iranians but in this article it was Sunnis that killed the Shias protesting.
The strikes on Iran may flesh out all kinds of nasty surprises right here at home. To say it was a bold move is putting it lightly.
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