{"id":180144,"date":"2026-03-04T09:37:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=180144"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:37:43","slug":"marines-defend-karachi-consulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=180144","title":{"rendered":"Marines Defend Karachi Consulate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-180148 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/karachi.jpg?resize=300%2C176&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/karachi.jpg?resize=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/karachi.jpg?w=474&amp;ssl=1 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>US Consulate Karachi, Pakistan<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Marines opened fire after group attempted to storm US consulate in Pakistan<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cIt\u2019s just seven to 20 guys; that\u2019s all you have facing an angry mob. Being in that headspace is important. Your back is really against the wall.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nJeff Schogol<\/strong><br \/>\nMarines assigned to the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, recently fired their weapons in self-defense after they were attacked by protestors who had breached the facility, a U.S. official told Task &amp; Purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters first reported that the Marines had fired their weapons when protesters tried to storm the consulate on Sunday following the death of Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, who was killed the day prior during air and missile strikes against Iran launched by Israel and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Ten people were killed during the incident, but it is unclear whether any of the attackers were hit by the Marines or by other forces, including private security guards and local police, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Marines took appropriate defensive measures to protect themselves and de-escalate the situation,\u201d the U.S. official said. \u201cAny actions that resulted in the discharge of weapons were justified, given the consulate facility and Marines were attacked. There was no further incident.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/marines-karachi-consulte\/\">Task&amp;Purpose<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marines de-escalate situations? The unnamed US official&#8217;s grasp of metaphor is impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Consulate Karachi, Pakistan Marines opened fire after group attempted to storm US consulate in Pakistan \u201cIt\u2019s just seven to 20 guys; that\u2019s all you have facing an angry mob. Being in that headspace is important. Your back is really against the wall.\u201d Jeff Schogol Marines assigned to the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":180148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[716,331],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fafo","category-marines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/karachi.jpg?fit=474%2C278&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-KRy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/180148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}