Amidst the attacks by Israel and the US on Iran, a Senior Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Sardar Hossein Nejat, has claimed that Pakistan allowed its airspace to launch attacks on Iran. The IRGC commander also threatened that Pakistan would “pay the price” and face a barrage of Iranian missiles soon.

“Our precise investigations indicate that the United States and the Zionist regime used Pakistan’s airspace in their attack on Iran. Pakistan will soon pay the price for this action and, like the Gulf (states), will not remain safe from our missiles,” Nejat posted on X on 2nd March.

Tensions are escalating after the United States and Israel launched missile attacks on Iran, and Tehran retaliated by attacking Israel and US bases across the Middle East.

If the Iranian regime issues an official statement on what its IRGC Commander alleged on social media, tensions between Iran and Pakistan could rise. Pakistan’s Shia community is already outraged over the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. On 1st March, protests against the United States-Israeli bombing campaign in Iran descended into violence in Pakistan as demonstrations claimed the lives of at least 23 people. 10 protestors were killed in the port of Karachi when a mob broke through the outer wall and were shot at by security personnel outside the US consulate.

Pakistan’s army and army-controlled political leadership is unquestionably subservient to the US, and is accused of having covert ties with Israel, a country, Pakistan does not even officially recognise. Pakistan is already getting hammered by Afghanistan, if Iran decides to avenge Islamabad’s treachery, Pakistan would get engulfed in war with Iran, along with Afghanistan, in addition to civil unrest.

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