Overview
- Senior delegations from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan flew to Tehran on Monday for high‑level talks with Iranian security leaders to seek de‑escalation between Tehran and the Mecca Pact states.
- The Saudi‑led coalition said it carried out strikes inside Houthi‑held areas that destroyed five missile storage tunnels, four ballistic missile launchers and a missile depot to disrupt Houthi supply lines.
- The Houthis have claimed recent ballistic missile and drone strikes on Riyadh’s King Khalid airport and on East‑West pipeline pumping stations, and an earlier airport strike this month killed 13 people.
- Pakistan’s foreign ministry condemned the Houthi attacks as a grave violation of Saudi sovereignty and reaffirmed its commitment to the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, which treats an attack on one signatory as an attack on all.
- Diplomats say the Tehran meetings aim to avert wider regional war that would further disrupt energy exports, choke Red Sea shipping, hamper humanitarian aid to Yemen, risk spillover into neighbouring states, prompt sharper military responses.