Even as the US and Iran inch closer to all-out war again, Iran’s interior minister travelled to Pakistan, a key mediator in the conflict, for talks. Separately, the military confirmed another death in Iraq on Saturday during the “controlled detonation” of a downed Iranian drone. The US military’s Central Command said early on Tuesday it targeted “Iranian military command centres, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites and air defence systems”. “American forces remain postured and prepared to hold Iran accountable for unwarranted aggression toward civilian mariners seeking to freely and openly transit the strait,” the command said. The British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre said a tanker came under attack early on Tuesday in the strait off Oman, forcing the crew to abandon the vessel.