Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni will arrive in Pakistan on Monday for a two-day visit amid renewed conflict in the Middle East, sources said.
Momeni will be accompanied by a high-level delegation, including senior officials from various Iranian ministries, sources said.
During the visit, the Iranian interior minister will hold meetings with Pakistan’s top leadership, they added.
Meanwhile, US President Trump has given a brief phone interview to US cable network NewsNation, according to Al Jazeera.
Asked about Tehran’s announcement that it’s no longer abiding by the US-Iran memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed last month, Trump said, “I couldn’t care less.”
He repeated the war’s primary objective is “never allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon”.
Iran said that the United States had attacked an under-construction nuclear power plant while Kuwait sad a power generation and water desalination plant had been targeted for a second time in two days.
The US said it had completed an eighth straight night of attacks against Iran after earlier announcing that two US military personnel were killed in Jordan, while US allies in the region reported more Iranian attacks on Sunday.
The US and Iran have intensified attacks as an interim ceasefire deal signed a month ago has unravelled and a struggle for control of the Strait of Hormuz has deepened, raising the risk of a return to all-out hostilities.
Israeli officials said Israel was preparing to receive more US refuelling aircraft after the recent escalation, and ahead of a possible expansion of US military operations against Iran.
US Central Command said the latest airstrikes, beginning at 6 p.m. ET (2200 GMT) on Saturday, were designed “to further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces who launched attacks against American service members in Jordan.”
Central Command later said it had completed its wave of attacks, hitting Iranian military coastal surveillance and air defence facilities.
Iranian reports said the US carried out an attack near Sirik in southern Iran, and near Shadegan, close to the border with Iraq.
Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization condemned a US attack on the site of a nuclear power plant under construction in Darkhovin, Iran’s Mehr news agency reported. The International Atomic Energy Agency said it was investigating reports of an overnight attack, noting that the plant was in the very early stages of construction.
In response to the latest strikes, Iran carried out a drone attack that targeted U.S. military assets and equipment at Kuwait’s Al-Adiri camp and Ali Al Salem Air Base, Iranian state TV reported early on Sunday. Both bases have been targeted as part of Iran’s attacks against U.S. assets and allies in the Gulf since last week.
Kuwait’s Electricity Ministry said a desalination plant had been attacked for the second day running, causing a fire. Kuwait’s armed forces said earlier they had again intercepted Iranian missiles, after a sustained Iranian attack on Saturday.
Bahrain’s air defences also intercepted an Iranian attack on Sunday, its state TV reported. Sirens sounded in Jordan, where the military said it had shot down three Iranian missiles. The Israeli military said it had detected the launch of missiles from Iran towards the Jordanian city of Aqaba, on Israel’s border.
In recent days both sides have taken aim at shipping traffic, with the US saying it is enforcing a naval blockade on Iran and Tehran saying it targets vessels violating its rules on navigating the Strait of Hormuz, which usually handles one-fifth of global oil supply.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Sunday four vessels had attempted to transit the strait via an “unsafe route” with U.S. backing after ignoring IRGC warnings. It said two had abandoned the attempt while the other two were involved in an “accident”. It did not elaborate.
Central Command said the deaths of two of its service personnel had occurred on Friday and that a third US service member was missing in action. The announcement brought the number of U.S. service members killed since the war began to 16, while more than 420 have been wounded.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on X: “Their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve.”
Iran’s Health Ministry said on Saturday that 50 people had been killed and more than 500 wounded in US strikes on the country over the past three weeks alone.
Overall, thousands have been killed and several million internally displaced in the conflict, mainly in Iran and in Lebanon, where a war between Israel and Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah was reignited.
In a written statement carried by Iranian state media late on Saturday, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said U.S. actions had shown that U.S. President Donald Trump’s signature was “utterly worthless and devoid of credibility”.
The statement warned of “even heavier costs and further humiliation” for the United States. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Khamenei’s whereabouts remain a mystery. He has not been seen in public since before his father and predecessor as supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, was killed in an airstrike on the first day of the US-Israeli war against Iran on February 28.