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Pakistan’s Army Chief Field Marshal Gen. Asim Munir, center, Ibrahim Kalin, the head of Turkey’s intelligence service, right, and Saudi Arabia’s Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, left, attend a meeting of high-level delegations from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey with senior Iranian officials in Tehran, Iran, October 26, 2026. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Reuters — Top officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan met Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday in a bid to de-escalate the Middle East conflict, as Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis launched new attacks on Saudi Arabia and Egypt approved defense support for the Gulf kingdom.

The talks were the first high-level contact between Iran and the three nations — which signed the Mecca mutual defense pact in August — since a war that began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran also spread to Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

The Saudi Foreign Ministry said the visit was intended to open negotiating channels to “prevent the return of…