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🪖🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia is hedging against regional disorder from multiple directions while filling some of the strategic space created by Iran’s weakening and withdrawal. 🇸🇦🇹🇷🇵🇰 The Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan defense pact is not an anti-Iran coalition. Turkey and Pakistan have been sleeping in the same bed with the Iranian regime for decades. 🕋 The Mecca Defense Agreement has been in the making for roughly two years, but it was accelerated by regional upheaval and growing Saudi disappointment with Washington as the ultimate guarantor of Gulf security. Riyadh is increasingly seeking greater strategic autonomy rather than relying on a single external protector. 🌎 Saudi Arabia needs deterrent capabilities of its own. Its nuclear ambitions have not produced an independent nuclear deterrent, while massive investment in armament and localization of the military industry has yet to deliver the level of strategic independence Riyadh wants. 🪖 The new pact allows Saudi Arabia to pool strategic assets with two powerful partners: 🇵🇰 Pakistan brings nuclear deterrence and significant military capabilities; 🇹🇷 Turkey brings NATO experience and a sophisticated, rapidly expanding defense industry; Saudi Arabia brings money, geography, and political weight. 🇺🇸🇸🇦 Nor is Saudi Arabia replacing Washington as its primary defense partner. KSA is diversifying its security portfolio and building on an existing web of bilateral defense relationships, including Saudi-Pakistan, Turkey-Pakistan, Turkey-Qatar, and Pakistan-Kuwait, etc. 📺 Watch my interview with Natasha Raquel Kirtchuk on i24NEWS English today on this topic:

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Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson: "We have deep ties with Turkey, Pakistan, and even Saudi Arabia, and there is no reason to worry about the Mecca Pact."
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Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson: "We have deep ties with Turkey, Pakistan, and even Saudi Arabia, and there is no reason to worry about the Mecca Pact."

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Reporting from Islamabad on 2 days of crisis talks between the foreign ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan...aimed at preventing further escalation of the war between US/Israel and Iran Sophia Saifi #Pakistan #Iran
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