Saudi, Turkey, Pakistan pact comes amid US-Iran war fallout

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Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey have signed a mutual defense pact intending collective security in response to aggression against any member. This agreement arises amid the geopolitical fallout from ongoing US-Iran tensions and implicates regional political and security considerations.

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed a mutual defence pact on Friday that would treat any act of aggression on one of the three nations as an attack on all of them, the allies said in a joint statement. However, it did not specify if the agreement would bind them to any particular military action in each other's defence. Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East studies at Council on Foreign Relations, Henry Barkey, shares further insights.