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Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan Send Top Officials to Tehran for Emergency Talks to Head Off Renewed War with Iran
Read this in the Market Flux appSaudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan dispatched their highest-level defense and intelligence officials to Tehran on Monday for an unprecedented quadrilateral security meeting aimed at preventing a renewed U.S. or Israeli military campaign against Iran. Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, Pakistani Army Chief Gen. Asim Munir and Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin sat down with Iranian National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei, with Iranian state media reporting the agenda covered regional security, the consequences of recent military aggression, and support for groups in Lebanon and Palestine. The meeting, initiated at Munir's request and confirmed by Iranian state media citing IRNA, lasted roughly an hour before concluding.
Iran used the gathering to push for a new regional security framework led by regional powers and free of U.S. or Israeli involvement. A senior Iranian official told Reuters that the talks did not cover Iran's nuclear issue, and Iranian President Pezeshkian separately reiterated that Tehran is not seeking nuclear weapons. One Iranian source claimed that Trump is effectively using Munir as an intermediary to ease oil prices, and Brent crude fell on the day as the diplomacy unfolded.
The flurry of diplomacy came against a backdrop of reported U.S. and Israeli planning for renewed strikes on Iran ahead of Israel's general election on Tuesday. Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu's office rejected reports of planned military escalation, and Defense Minister Israel Katz said Israel would not initiate an attack but would respond to any further Iranian strikes. The Israeli military also pushed back on reports of a confrontation between the political leadership and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir over Iran policy, calling any such framing "misleading and irrelevant" and stating it remains on high alert across all fronts. Netanyahu's political opponents accused him of stoking tensions with Iran for electoral purposes.
Adding to the diplomatic activity, Iran's President Pezeshkian was also scheduled to hold bilateral meetings with Russian President Putin and the Emir of Qatar in Moscow on Tuesday. Separately, a report cited by WarMonitor3 alleged Iran has been secretly rearming Hezbollah in Lebanon over the past three months, spending tens of millions of dollars to prepare the group to resume fighting with Israel in the event Iran itself is struck.
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