Authorities say at least 22 people were killed and more than 120 wounded in clashes with police on Sunday after protesters tried to storm the U.S.

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.

  • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1243·
    13 hours ago

    at least 22 people dead and more than 120 others injured as demonstrators supportive of the Iranian government

    nothing of value lost

    • fonix232@fedia.io
      292·
      13 hours ago

      People should have a right to protest - even if they’re dumbasses protesting for idiotic things. Devaluing a life just because the person behind it is a dumbass is very much a Nazi tactic. You don’t dehumanise stupid. You help it realise and reconcile it’s stupidity.

      • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
        916·
        12 hours ago

        People should have a right to protest

        Sure?

        You help it realise and reconcile it’s stupidity

        What level of management speak is this?

        I also like how you jumped from violent mobs tries to burn US consulate staff alive to: you need to have a calm moment with them, sit them down, have a chat, maybe some tea and talk it over? 🤣

        I’m not sure you’d be quite so forgiving if you were inside the embassy about to be gang raped and beheaded

        This is still my favourite violent mob:

        Kumara, who was an ethnic Sinhalese and a Buddhist by faith[7] and had lived and worked in Pakistan for eleven years,[8] was beaten, killed and later set on fire by a mob in Sialkot. He had been accused of blasphemy for removing a poster featuring religious content. It was later revealed that Kumara had removed the poster due to pending renovation work in the building, and was falsely accused of blasphemy by workers of the factory.[9

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Priyantha_Kumara

        Youch!

        • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
          92·
          12 hours ago

          I’d like to know how you jumped from “demonstrators in support of the Iranian government” to “deserves to die.”

          • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
            1112·
            12 hours ago

            I didn’t say that, I said I don’t give a shit that they died

            They violently attacked the US embassy hoping to kill everyone inside because they’re upset their evil dictator who last month murdered upwards of 30,000 people died.

            See if I give a shit

    • Pratai@piefed.caEnglish
      146·
      12 hours ago

      People you don’t like are dead and you’re devaluing their lives. What makes you different from them?

      Please learn from this.

        • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 hours ago

          I’m not sure I’d phrase it as a celebration, but the media referring to this as a protest is disingenuous at best. The number of videos I’ve seen of dudes shooting guns at the embassy is enough for me to come to my own conclusions about this “protest.”

          And if you’re going to shoot at a building filled with American appointed officials, guarded by Marine Security Guards, you’re probably going to die doing so.

          Ideally, this all could have been avoided by not starting another war, but here we are.

      • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
        512·
        12 hours ago

        How about this: I hope they died slowly, painfully, the same way Iranian protesters are when they’re tortured for days on end by the Iranian government those same people support

        • Pratai@piefed.caEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          You’re no better than they are. Also, I’m going to go ahead and block you. No one needs that kind of negativity and cruelty.