Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani leaders to meet in Tehran Monday

Delegations from Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan will travel to Tehran on Monday for security talks.

Ali Bagheri Kani, deputy secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, confirmed the schedule via state media.

The Saudi side will be led by Defence Minister Khalid bin Salman Al Saud. Pakistan will send military chief Asim Munir, and Turkiye will send intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin.

Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, will lead the Iranian delegation.

Rayed Krimly, Saudi deputy minister for public diplomacy, stated the visit supports mediation efforts by Qatar and Pakistan.

He said the meeting aims to promote dialogue and diplomatic solutions to the ongoing crisis.

This will be the first high-level contact between Iran and all three alliance members since Yemen’s Houthi group escalated attacks on Saudi Arabia last month.

Saudi Arabia intercepted missiles and drones on Sunday as fighting continued.

Field Marshal Munir visited Tehran last week and met President Masoud Pezeshkian.

Iranian officials told Munir that talks with the United States to end the war on Iran would not begin until Tehran’s demands were met.

Pakistan has acted as a key intermediary between Washington and Tehran since the war started in February.

Mediation efforts produced an interim agreement in June, but fighting resumed weeks later as the deal collapsed. Ministers from the three nations met in Riyadh this month and agreed to rapidly deploy military forces to Saudi Arabia. The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement was signed in August. It stipulates that an attack on one member is an attack on all. Turkiye’s parliament began ratification last week and remains in process. Pakistan approved the pact last week.