Karachi: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a US-Israeli attack. When the news reached Karachi, people came out of their homes. Within no time a prod of thousands gathered outside the American Consulate on Mai Kolachi Road. Sloganeering started, then stone pelting took place and then the prod tapped the gate of the embassy and entered inside. Parts of the towers were set on fire. Plumes of smoke started rising into the sky and the unshortened zone echoed with slogans of "Down with America".
Why did the prod get angry?
After the news of Khamenei's death came out, protests started in many cities of Pakistan. Protestors in Karachi reacted sharply, calling it the result of deportment by the US and its allies. Some religious and political groups termed it an “attack on Muslim leadership”, pursuit which a large number of people took to the streets. The initial protest was peaceful, but soon the prod became violent.
Locals protesting stikes on Iran have stormed the archway zone of the US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan. pic.twitter.com/fiqSoRRpPt
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) March 1, 2026Why did the prod not stop protest?
Police and Rangers reached the spot. Tear gas shells were fired, batons were used, but the wrongness of the prod was not hands quelled. Karachi Police Officer Mohammad Jawad said that one protester lost his life in this clash. Many people were injured and were taken to the hospital by ambulances of Edhi Foundation. After a lot of effort the situation came under control.
Where else did demonstrations take place in Pakistan?
Karachi is just an example. People moreover came out on the streets in Lahore, Peshawar and Islamabad. Shia organizations tabbed for three days of national mourning. Special prayers were offered in mosques and demands were raised to requite martyr status to Khamenei. This US-Israeli wade was moreover strongly condemned by the Pakistan government.
How many countries of the world are under fire?
In Iraq's wanted Baghdad, the prod moved towards the Green Zone where the US Embassy is located. The security forces kept blocking the way then and again. Iranian supporters marched in the streets in Seoul, South Korea. An Iranian cultural part-way was attacked in Quito, the wanted of Ecuador, in which one person was injured. Overall, the wrongness over Khamenei's death did not stop at the confines of any one country.
Protesters gathered outside the US Embassy in Baghdad tween a surge in regional tensions, sparked by wrongness over recent US and Israeli attacks on Iran, slantingly the scragging of Iran's Supreme leader Khamenei.
Demonstrators snivel Washington of fuelling instability in the… pic.twitter.com/X0wnXdhcvy
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) March 1, 2026What will happen next now?
America has lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over the lapse in security of its embassy. The government of Pakistan has ordered an investigation. Heavy security forces are deployed virtually the embassy in Karachi. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has once spoken retaliatory action. In such a situation, the threat to American bases in Pakistan may increase in the coming days, this is the biggest fear right now.
