The Mecca Pact's Moment of Truth
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Houthi attacks on Riyadh put new Saudi Arabia-Turkey-Pakistan mutual defense pact to test
The ramped-up ballistic missile and drone barrage targeting sites -- including the holy city of Mecca -- across Saudi Arabia in recent days is providing an eye-opening test of the mutual defense pact the kingdom signed last month with Turkey and Pakistan. And so far, the Saudis' new partners have shown little appetite for joining the widening Middle East war against Iran and its Houthi proxies.
The three countries have signed a defense agreement, known as the Mecca Pact.
What Aretaios and Zacharakis write in K-Report. The Houthis are testing with a "good morning" the "Mecca Pact" in which Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey participate and Egypt is being pressured to participate. "Moscow Pact" that some may have hastened to characterize as a "Muslim NATO" as it was agreed between the three countries that the state under attack requests a specific form of assistance, something that is not confirmed after the Houthi…
The Mecca Pact's Moment of Truth
When Houthi drones allegedly turned toward Islam’s holiest city this month, the Mecca Pact, the trilateral defense arrangement binding Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye, faced the only test that matters for any alliance: not whether it exists on paper, but whether it moves when its members are struck. It didn’t. What followed instead was a […]
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