Overview
- Senior delegations from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan traveled to Tehran on Monday for the first joint high-level talks with Iran since Houthi attacks intensified.
- Saudi Defence Minister Khalid bin Salman, Pakistan army chief Asim Munir and Turkey’s intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin took part in talks with Iran’s security leadership led by Mohsen Rezaei.
- The Saudi-led coalition said it carried out strikes inside Yemen on Monday that destroyed ballistic missile launchers, tunnels and a missile depot to degrade Houthi strike capability.
- The Houthis claimed precision strikes on Riyadh’s King Khalid airport and on pumping stations along the East‑West oil pipeline but those claims have not been independently verified by Saudi authorities.
- Pakistan and Qatar are acting as mediators while the situation keeps energy exports, commercial aviation and humanitarian relief at heightened risk and raises the prospect of wider regional escalation.