Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar made the announcement on Sunday.
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes attack targeting military and government sites, officials said.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was among those killed in Tehran on the first day of strikes, with his son Mojtaba Khamenei later chosen to succeed him. Iran has responded with missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, regional U.S. bases and multiple Gulf nations. Iran is also attempting to block some shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
Israel is also intensifying its long-running strike campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon and expanding its ground operations in the south of the country.
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President Donald Trump said in a social media post on Thursday morning that the U.S. "needs nothing from NATO," claiming that allies "have done absolutely nothing to help" with the war in Iran.
"'Never forget' this very important point in time," Trump wrote.
-ABC News' Fritz Farrow
An Israeli military official told ABC News on Thursday that the Israel Defense Forces conducted a strike targeting the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, Alireza Tangsiri.
“We are studying the results,” the official said.
The IDF did not immediately say whether Tangsiri had been killed.
But Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement that the IDF "thwarted" Tangsiri. "The man who was directly responsible for the terrorist act of bombing and blocking the Strait of Hormuz for shipping -- was blown up and foiled," Katz said.
-ABC News’ Jordana Miller, Joe Simonetti and Morgan Winsor
U.S. Naval Forces Central Command said in a statement on Thursday that a sailor was injured aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier while it was conducting flight operations in the Arabian Sea.
The incident occurred on Wednesday, the Command said in a post to X.
"The injury is not combat-related nor life threatening. The sailor has been transported ashore for additional medical care and remains in stable condition. The circumstances of the incident are under investigation," it said.
The Bahrain Defence Force said on Thursday that air defenses intercepted 19 drones and one ballistic missile fired from Iran over the previous 24 hours.
The latest interceptions bring the total Bahraini interception tally to 350 drones and 154 ballistic missiles since Feb. 28, the force said.
