With Middle East Still at War, Three Regional Powers Ink a New Alliance
The agreement is aimed at collective deterrence and deeper defense cooperation as regional tensions rise, with Pakistan saying an attack on one member would be treated as an attack on all.
- On Friday, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the "Mecca Joint Defense Agreement," intended to "strengthen collective deterrence against any act of aggression."
- Seeking a "layered deterrence approach" to regional threats, the states formed an "elastic defense pact" to stabilize the region, leveraging Turkey and Pakistan's existing relations with Iran and the US.
- "The three countries complement each other unusually well," security lecturer Andreas Krieg said, citing Turkey's industrial capacity and Pakistan's nuclear deterrent. The alliance functions on the principle that an attack on one member constitutes an attack on all.
- While Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted that Muslims can "face every challenge by malicious outsiders head-on," analysts warn the pact poses challenges for Israel and pushes normalization with Riyadh further out of reach.
- Describing the pact as an attempt to build a "third pole," Khalid al-Jaber of the Doha-based Middle East Council on Global Affairs noted it aims to prevent hegemony by denying either Israel or Iran monopoly over regional order.
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The Turkish Defense Ministry revealed new details on Thursday of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, a pact Ankara signed with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan that now requires each country to treat an attack against one as an attack against all. The post Turkey Says Saudi, Pakistan Defense Deal Includes A.I and Autonomous System Tech appeared first on Breitbart.
Mecca Defense Pact Signals New Muslim Military Alliance Beyond U.S. And Israel
by Emmitt Barry, Worthy News Washington D.C. Bureau Chief MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Worthy News) – Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan are moving to deepen military cooperation under a new mutual-defense pact that Israeli analysts say could reshape the Middle East’s security architecture while reducing dependence on the United States and bypassing Israel. The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, signed August 7 by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turk…
The Mecca Agreement, which brings together Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan in a joint defense commitment, attracted attention when it was signed at a time when the war with Iran had reduced trust in the US among Gulf countries. While experts pointed out that the joint defense commitment risked drawing Turkey into regional conflicts, attention turned to why Egypt did not join the agreement.
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