Violent clashes between protesters and security forces in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi and in the country’s north left at least 22 people dead and more than 120 others injured as demonstrators supportive of the Iranian government attempted to storm a U.S. Consulate on Sunday, authorities said.

In the north of the country, demonstrators attacked U.N. and government offices.

The violence came after the United States and Israel attacked Iran, killing its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Police and officials at a hospital in Karachi said that at least 50 people were also wounded in the clashes and some of them were in critical condition.

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    No they didn’t. They still supported Israel, but they were making statements about tempering Israel’s approach. As Israel got worse and worse under trump’s encouragement, I’m pretty sure a democrat (or anyone sane) would have pushed back a lot more on Israel. Not enough, probably. But better is better.

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      they were making statements about tempering Israel’s approach.

      Actions speak louder than words.

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        Absolutely. But diplomacy starts with words and it sometimes works. We don’t know what would have happened next if trump hadn’t fucked everything ten times over. We know trump actively encouraged the genocide, so it’s a significant difference.

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      they were making statements about tempering Israel’s approach

      LOL, they made statements about Israel’s approach for four years… but supported every single thing those murderers did. Their words are meaningless because when Benny tells them to jump, they jump.

      And when Benny told them to bomb Iran, they’d have done it.

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        Obviously, you can’t know that, so you are just making things up to fit your world view. But whatever, if you’re happy with the destruction trump allowed on Gaza, I can’t help you. Good luck.

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          I love how Democrats suddenly pretend to care about these things once leadership changes.

          All I heard from you for four years were excuses for genocide.

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            I haven’t seen anything like the current actions before in Israel. Previous to the Oct attack response, the only significant calls for genocide in the area came from Muslims. Israel treated people in Gaza terribly, and illegally kept expanding their settlements. But it was nothing like any conventional use of the word ‘genocide’ would be. Things changes throughout '24, but it was a slow transition and with all the lies on both sides, it wasn’t clear until the end of December how much Isreal had gone off the deep end. And then trump came into power and encouraged them and it got significantly worse. So I’m not sure where your ‘years of excuses’ comes from because it doesn’t fit the actual timeline.