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On March 18, just days before Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, became the main go-between for Washington and Tehran, he called a meeting with the country’s top Shiite clerics. The goal was to prevent protests from turning violent after news of Khamenei’s death sparked unrest.“Violence in Pakistan, on the basis of incidents occurring in another country, will not be tolerated,” the army chief warned, according to the military’s media wing, reported NYT.