Live updates: Iranian official meets mediators in Pakistan as Iran and US keep up a 10th day of attacks
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Here’s what we’re following:Iran’s Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni is meeting with mediators in Pakistan in an attempt to salvage the collapsed interim deal between the U.S. and Iran. However, it remains unclear just what new arrangement could be reached to end the fighting.The two countries have continued trading strikes for the past 10 days. Iran attacked a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz early Tuesday, forcing its crew to abandon the ship, while the United States conducted yet another round of airstrikes targeting the Islamic Republic.The U.S., announced the death of another American service member Monday, killed in Iraq during the “controlled detonation” of a downed Iranian drone. The U.S. military also identified two soldiers who were killed in Jordan on Friday while defending against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks. Seventeen U.S. troops have been killed since the start of the war.
