Saudi, Turkiye, Pakistan plan urgent military chiefs meeting — SkimNews
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- Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, and Pakistan are preparing an urgent chiefs-of-staff military meeting, per the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in response to recent Houthi attacks on the kingdom.
- Qatar categorically rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's UN General Assembly claim that Doha is running a campaign to influence public opinion against Israel.
- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, speaking on the UN General Assembly sidelines, said Iran wants the US to return to the Memorandum of Understanding before the November US midterms, stating: "We wish Americans to return to the MoU before the midterms."
Why it matters: A trilateral Saudi-Turkiye-Pakistan chiefs-of-staff meeting represents direct military coordination among three nuclear-armed states responding to Houthi strikes on Saudi territory, while Iran's simultaneous pitch to rejoin a bilateral deal before November midterms creates a parallel diplomatic channel.
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