Third Parties’ Peace
Two countries that have not spoken for 47 years just “made peace” — and the one announcing it is Pakistan’s prime minister. Not Trump, not Tehran, but Shehbaz Sharif reading out history like a press release about a new mall opening.
He sets the scene: a “peace agreement” between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran, signing in Switzerland on June 19, with thanks to Qatar, blessings to the “visionary leadership” of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and an “Allahu akbar” for the closing bell.
Trump, who promised Iranians “this is how it will end,” shrinks the moment to a line that fits on a mug: the deal “is now completed. Congratulations to all.” Behind closed doors, he reportedly assures his own vice president that Netanyahu “supports” the deal and that he wants no regime change in Iran. The man who sold maximum pressure is now selling limited liability.
Tehran edits the same story with one sentence: “America was forced to sign an agreement to end the war.”
Iranian officials talk about a formal end to be declared at night and 60 more days of “final” negotiations.
Washington gets its peace headline; Iran keeps its leverage meter running.
The casting is deliberate. Iran sends its parliament speaker and foreign minister to Switzerland for the first official high‑level meeting with the U.S. in almost half a century.
They wait past midnight in Tehran so the announcement will not look like a birthday gift for Trump, and the time zones let each capital choose the date that suits its domestic myth. The Qatari team flies in, shuttles messages for 17 hours, and exits as the region’s new concierge service.
Europe rushes to clap first. London, Paris, Berlin and Rome line up to bless the memorandum and praise the mediators — Qatar, Pakistan and everyone in between — while Jerusalem is still silent.
The deal is real because enough people with flags say so.
On paper, this is “peace.” In reality, it is a carefully staged photo where every actor claims victory for a war no one really won. Washington gets to say it ended another forever war by signature. Tehran gets to say it bent America.
The mediators get to say they matter now. And Israel learns what it means when your closest ally and your main enemy both discover they can do business without you.
#iran #usa #trump #deal #qatar #pakistan #israel #middleeast #war #geopolitics
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Two countries that have not spoken for 47 years just “made peace” — and the one announcing it is Pakistan’s prime minister. Not Trump, not Tehran, but Shehbaz Sharif reading out history like a press release about a new mall opening.
He sets the scene: a “peace agreement” between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran, signing in Switzerland on June 19, with thanks to Qatar, blessings to the “visionary leadership” of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and an “Allahu akbar” for the closing bell.
Trump, who promised Iranians “this is how it will end,” shrinks the moment to a line that fits on a mug: the deal “is now completed. Congratulations to all.” Behind closed doors, he reportedly assures his own vice president that Netanyahu “supports” the deal and that he wants no regime change in Iran. The man who sold maximum pressure is now selling limited liability.
Tehran edits the same story with one sentence: “America was forced to sign an agreement to end the war.”
Iranian officials talk about a formal end to be declared at night and 60 more days of “final” negotiations.
Washington gets its peace headline; Iran keeps its leverage meter running.
The casting is deliberate. Iran sends its parliament speaker and foreign minister to Switzerland for the first official high‑level meeting with the U.S. in almost half a century.
They wait past midnight in Tehran so the announcement will not look like a birthday gift for Trump, and the time zones let each capital choose the date that suits its domestic myth. The Qatari team flies in, shuttles messages for 17 hours, and exits as the region’s new concierge service.
Europe rushes to clap first. London, Paris, Berlin and Rome line up to bless the memorandum and praise the mediators — Qatar, Pakistan and everyone in between — while Jerusalem is still silent.
The deal is real because enough people with flags say so.
On paper, this is “peace.” In reality, it is a carefully staged photo where every actor claims victory for a war no one really won. Washington gets to say it ended another forever war by signature. Tehran gets to say it bent America.
The mediators get to say they matter now. And Israel learns what it means when your closest ally and your main enemy both discover they can do business without you.
#iran #usa #trump #deal #qatar #pakistan #israel #middleeast #war #geopolitics
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🙏39😢34🤯33🤬33💯29😱28🔥23❤2
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Bürgenstock: One Summit, Two Victories
The first high‑level US–Iran session in Bürgenstock ended exactly the way modern diplomacy likes it: with everyone declaring success in completely different languages.
The official line from mediators Qatar and Pakistan is pure beige — “positive and constructive atmosphere,” “encouraging progress,” a political oversight committee, working groups on nuclear issues and sanctions, a 60‑day roadmap to a final deal, a de‑confliction mechanism for disputes, and a communication channel to keep Hormuz shipping “safe.” On paper, it’s process heaven.
Back home, JD Vance sells it as a macho win. He calls it “a very, very good day,” praises “very good foundations,” and brags that “yesterday there was whining” from the Iranian team, who “threatened to walk — but didn’t.”
Then the cameras catch something else: Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif, the same mediator praising a “constructive atmosphere,” watching as the Iranian delegation actually gets up and leaves the hall in protest after Trump’s fresh threats.
Later, Sharif still calls it “a success.” In this script, even walkouts are rebranded as progress.
Tehran’s storyline is the mirror image. Tasnim, close to the Revolutionary Guards, crows that Iran has become — “against the will of the US and Israel” — part of Lebanon’s security architecture.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi lists concrete gains: restrictions on oil and petrochemical exports lifted, the naval blockade removed, frozen assets being released, a reconstruction program launched.
For him, the “first real test” isn’t nuclear transparency; it’s whether the new de‑confliction cell in Lebanon actually protects Hezbollah’s space to operate. Washington talks about mechanisms to supervise Iran. Iran talks about embedding itself inside someone else’s security system.
Neutral Switzerland does what neutral Switzerland does: blesses the progress, hopes “diplomacy will contribute to stability and peace,” and smiles for the group photo.
China weighs in from afar to stress Iran’s “sovereignty and dignity,” because every multipolar sermon needs its applause line. And then, in a move that says more than any communiqué, the Iranian delegation flies back to Tehran the same morning — the round described as “shorter than expected” is presented as a decisive first step.
So Bürgenstock delivers two victory speeches on top of the same fragile scaffolding. One side claims it has built oversight over Iran; the other claims it has forced its way into Lebanon’s security file and traded zero core concessions for oil, cash and status.
Between them sits the Swiss resort, a stack of committee mandates, and 60 days on the clock — with everyone agreeing only on one thing: the show must be sold as success, even when the footage shows someone walking out of the room.
#US #Iran #Lebanon #Hormuz #Switzerland #Qatar #Pakistan #China #war #diplomacy
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
The first high‑level US–Iran session in Bürgenstock ended exactly the way modern diplomacy likes it: with everyone declaring success in completely different languages.
The official line from mediators Qatar and Pakistan is pure beige — “positive and constructive atmosphere,” “encouraging progress,” a political oversight committee, working groups on nuclear issues and sanctions, a 60‑day roadmap to a final deal, a de‑confliction mechanism for disputes, and a communication channel to keep Hormuz shipping “safe.” On paper, it’s process heaven.
Back home, JD Vance sells it as a macho win. He calls it “a very, very good day,” praises “very good foundations,” and brags that “yesterday there was whining” from the Iranian team, who “threatened to walk — but didn’t.”
Then the cameras catch something else: Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif, the same mediator praising a “constructive atmosphere,” watching as the Iranian delegation actually gets up and leaves the hall in protest after Trump’s fresh threats.
Later, Sharif still calls it “a success.” In this script, even walkouts are rebranded as progress.
Tehran’s storyline is the mirror image. Tasnim, close to the Revolutionary Guards, crows that Iran has become — “against the will of the US and Israel” — part of Lebanon’s security architecture.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi lists concrete gains: restrictions on oil and petrochemical exports lifted, the naval blockade removed, frozen assets being released, a reconstruction program launched.
For him, the “first real test” isn’t nuclear transparency; it’s whether the new de‑confliction cell in Lebanon actually protects Hezbollah’s space to operate. Washington talks about mechanisms to supervise Iran. Iran talks about embedding itself inside someone else’s security system.
Neutral Switzerland does what neutral Switzerland does: blesses the progress, hopes “diplomacy will contribute to stability and peace,” and smiles for the group photo.
China weighs in from afar to stress Iran’s “sovereignty and dignity,” because every multipolar sermon needs its applause line. And then, in a move that says more than any communiqué, the Iranian delegation flies back to Tehran the same morning — the round described as “shorter than expected” is presented as a decisive first step.
So Bürgenstock delivers two victory speeches on top of the same fragile scaffolding. One side claims it has built oversight over Iran; the other claims it has forced its way into Lebanon’s security file and traded zero core concessions for oil, cash and status.
Between them sits the Swiss resort, a stack of committee mandates, and 60 days on the clock — with everyone agreeing only on one thing: the show must be sold as success, even when the footage shows someone walking out of the room.
#US #Iran #Lebanon #Hormuz #Switzerland #Qatar #Pakistan #China #war #diplomacy
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥83🤬41🤯40😱40💯38😢35🙏19❤1
Iran’s Funeral Diplomacy: Martyrdom, Threats and Leverage
Iran is about to bury Ali Khamenei and turn his grave into a stage for nuclear bargaining and regional intimidation.
Next week’s funeral in Mashhad is being packaged as a regime stress test and a loyalty referendum in one.
Officials promise “tens of millions” in the streets, the largest event Tehran has ever seen. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf — now also wearing the hat of “head of the revenge and funeral delegation” — is calling on Iranians to “write a glorious new page” and to shout for “blood vengeance” for their late leader.
The grief isn’t private, it’s a mobilization order.
Even the family tragedy is being fed into the script. The regime choreographed a farewell ceremony for Khamenei’s daughter‑in‑law and his wife, both mortally wounded in the strike that opened Operation “Lion’s Roar,” the attack that killed the supreme leader. Their funerals will be folded into Khamenei’s own.
Mojtaba Khamenei, the son and designated successor, pointedly skipped the goodbye — a sign of how carefully he’s curating his image as leader, not mourner, before the official oath.
Foreign guests will be carefully chosen: Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif and a senior figure from China’s standing committee are expected to attend, signaling who Tehran still counts as partners.
Around the ceremony, the security machine is turning mourning into a threat display. The “Khatam al‑Anbiya” emergency command has publicly warned Israel and the United States against “any miscalculation” during the funeral week, promising “severe and painful responses.”
Its commander, General Ali Abdollahi, urged “the enemies” to think very carefully — language that’s less about actual battlefield red lines and more about giving the regime an excuse to escalate if anything goes wrong.
In the same breath, the armed forces renewed their loyalty oath to the new leader, Ayatollah Sayyid Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, and doubled down on two pressure points: the nuclear file and the Strait of Hormuz.
They’re demanding the nuclear issue be pulled out of negotiations and insisting that the Hormuz shipping lane they’ve drawn is under Iran’s “exclusive sovereignty.” Any ship that strays from that track, they warn, will be treated as a target.
So you get four layers at once: a mass funeral designed to project legitimacy at home, open threats to Israel and the U.S. to deter any strike in a moment of vulnerability, a nuclear posture that demands de‑linking the program from talks, and a maritime doctrine that treats one of the world’s key chokepoints as domestic waters.
The regime is trying to turn Khamenei’s burial into a binding contract: loyalty inside Iran, deference in the Gulf, and respect for its nuclear red lines — or else.
For everyone watching from the outside, the translation is simple. Iran is not using the transition to soften its stance. It’s doubling down, wrapping missiles, centrifuges and shipping lanes in black banners and religious slogans. The funeral is not just an end — it’s the launch event for Mojtaba Khamenei’s version of the same project.
#Iran #Khamenei #Tehran #nuclear #Hormuz #China #Pakistan #war #regime #fakeDemocracy
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Iran is about to bury Ali Khamenei and turn his grave into a stage for nuclear bargaining and regional intimidation.
Next week’s funeral in Mashhad is being packaged as a regime stress test and a loyalty referendum in one.
Officials promise “tens of millions” in the streets, the largest event Tehran has ever seen. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf — now also wearing the hat of “head of the revenge and funeral delegation” — is calling on Iranians to “write a glorious new page” and to shout for “blood vengeance” for their late leader.
The grief isn’t private, it’s a mobilization order.
Even the family tragedy is being fed into the script. The regime choreographed a farewell ceremony for Khamenei’s daughter‑in‑law and his wife, both mortally wounded in the strike that opened Operation “Lion’s Roar,” the attack that killed the supreme leader. Their funerals will be folded into Khamenei’s own.
Mojtaba Khamenei, the son and designated successor, pointedly skipped the goodbye — a sign of how carefully he’s curating his image as leader, not mourner, before the official oath.
Foreign guests will be carefully chosen: Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif and a senior figure from China’s standing committee are expected to attend, signaling who Tehran still counts as partners.
Around the ceremony, the security machine is turning mourning into a threat display. The “Khatam al‑Anbiya” emergency command has publicly warned Israel and the United States against “any miscalculation” during the funeral week, promising “severe and painful responses.”
Its commander, General Ali Abdollahi, urged “the enemies” to think very carefully — language that’s less about actual battlefield red lines and more about giving the regime an excuse to escalate if anything goes wrong.
In the same breath, the armed forces renewed their loyalty oath to the new leader, Ayatollah Sayyid Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, and doubled down on two pressure points: the nuclear file and the Strait of Hormuz.
They’re demanding the nuclear issue be pulled out of negotiations and insisting that the Hormuz shipping lane they’ve drawn is under Iran’s “exclusive sovereignty.” Any ship that strays from that track, they warn, will be treated as a target.
So you get four layers at once: a mass funeral designed to project legitimacy at home, open threats to Israel and the U.S. to deter any strike in a moment of vulnerability, a nuclear posture that demands de‑linking the program from talks, and a maritime doctrine that treats one of the world’s key chokepoints as domestic waters.
The regime is trying to turn Khamenei’s burial into a binding contract: loyalty inside Iran, deference in the Gulf, and respect for its nuclear red lines — or else.
For everyone watching from the outside, the translation is simple. Iran is not using the transition to soften its stance. It’s doubling down, wrapping missiles, centrifuges and shipping lanes in black banners and religious slogans. The funeral is not just an end — it’s the launch event for Mojtaba Khamenei’s version of the same project.
#Iran #Khamenei #Tehran #nuclear #Hormuz #China #Pakistan #war #regime #fakeDemocracy
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥109😢55💯55🤯53🤬53😱50🙏49❤2
📰 Trump’s ‘Strategic Triad’: Islamists With a Business Plan
In Trump’s Middle East, Turkey, Qatar, and Pakistan are selling themselves as the responsible adults in the room, the “strategic triad” that can manage the chaos better than the old Arab strongmen. On paper, they’re U.S. partners.
On the ground, they are building an Islamist‑flavored power bloc that talks openly about “liberating Jerusalem” and treating Zionism as a civilizational disease. Not exactly classic NATO messaging.
Ankara sits at the center of this project. It trains and shapes the new Syrian army under President Ahmed al‑Sharaa.
The command ranks include men directly tied to sectarian killings, kidnappings, extortion, and the ethnic cleansing of Kurds.
These are the same warlords who previously ran Turkish‑backed militias. Now they wear state insignia and new division numbers.
Turkish trade props up Sharaa’s regime, Turkish officers build his security forces, and Turkish political Islam gives the ideological frame. You can call it state-building. You can also call it laundering jihadist infrastructure into “legitimate” power.
At the same time, Turkey hosts a Hamas operations hub in Istanbul, where planning, financing, and travel are coordinated under the cover of Turkish passports.
In Lebanon, Ankara quietly seeds influence in Sunni Tripoli and among Turkmen communities, just as Trump’s circle toys with the idea of letting the “new Syria” play a role in stabilizing Lebanon.
The alleged moderator becomes the door‑opener for movements and networks that see Israel as a temporary glitch to be removed, not a reality to be managed.
Around this core, Qatar and Pakistan add their own leverage. Doha supplies the financial reach, soft power, and media ecosystem to normalize political Islam as just another “authentic regional voice,” while still cashing in with Western partners.
Islamabad brings arms trade, nuclear status, and a long history of living as a “frontline ally” that plays both sides of every war on terror.
Together with Turkey’s conventional military power, this creates a coalition that can talk fluent Washington — “stability,” “partnership,” “counterterrorism” — while feeding and weaponizing Islamist actors it finds useful.
For Israel, this is a hostile axis wrapped in the language of mediation and conflict resolution, with direct lines into Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and the Gulf, and growing influence over how Trump’s White House sees the region.
When Trump’s envoys echo Turkish and Qatari talking points back to him as “pragmatic solutions,” the gap between Israeli security reality and American diplomatic fantasy widens. The triad offers itself as the new guardrails of the Middle East. The question is simple: guardrails for whom, and against what?
#turkey #qatar #pakistan #trump #israel #middleeast #islamism #fakeStability
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
In Trump’s Middle East, Turkey, Qatar, and Pakistan are selling themselves as the responsible adults in the room, the “strategic triad” that can manage the chaos better than the old Arab strongmen. On paper, they’re U.S. partners.
On the ground, they are building an Islamist‑flavored power bloc that talks openly about “liberating Jerusalem” and treating Zionism as a civilizational disease. Not exactly classic NATO messaging.
Ankara sits at the center of this project. It trains and shapes the new Syrian army under President Ahmed al‑Sharaa.
The command ranks include men directly tied to sectarian killings, kidnappings, extortion, and the ethnic cleansing of Kurds.
These are the same warlords who previously ran Turkish‑backed militias. Now they wear state insignia and new division numbers.
Turkish trade props up Sharaa’s regime, Turkish officers build his security forces, and Turkish political Islam gives the ideological frame. You can call it state-building. You can also call it laundering jihadist infrastructure into “legitimate” power.
At the same time, Turkey hosts a Hamas operations hub in Istanbul, where planning, financing, and travel are coordinated under the cover of Turkish passports.
In Lebanon, Ankara quietly seeds influence in Sunni Tripoli and among Turkmen communities, just as Trump’s circle toys with the idea of letting the “new Syria” play a role in stabilizing Lebanon.
The alleged moderator becomes the door‑opener for movements and networks that see Israel as a temporary glitch to be removed, not a reality to be managed.
Around this core, Qatar and Pakistan add their own leverage. Doha supplies the financial reach, soft power, and media ecosystem to normalize political Islam as just another “authentic regional voice,” while still cashing in with Western partners.
Islamabad brings arms trade, nuclear status, and a long history of living as a “frontline ally” that plays both sides of every war on terror.
Together with Turkey’s conventional military power, this creates a coalition that can talk fluent Washington — “stability,” “partnership,” “counterterrorism” — while feeding and weaponizing Islamist actors it finds useful.
For Israel, this is a hostile axis wrapped in the language of mediation and conflict resolution, with direct lines into Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and the Gulf, and growing influence over how Trump’s White House sees the region.
When Trump’s envoys echo Turkish and Qatari talking points back to him as “pragmatic solutions,” the gap between Israeli security reality and American diplomatic fantasy widens. The triad offers itself as the new guardrails of the Middle East. The question is simple: guardrails for whom, and against what?
#turkey #qatar #pakistan #trump #israel #middleeast #islamism #fakeStability
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥8😱7🤯6😢6🤬5💯4🙏3
Red Sea in the War Spreadsheet: Bab el-Mandeb, Riyadh, and “Red Line” Pakistan
Iran just added another line item to the war menu: if the U.S. hits its power grid, the Houthis threaten to hit the world’s oil flow.
According to three regional sources, Tehran has asked Yemen’s Houthi movement to stand ready to close the Red Sea oil route at Bab el-Mandeb if Washington bombs Iranian power infrastructure, effectively weaponizing a chokepoint that carries a big chunk of Saudi and global energy exports.
Houthi‑aligned sources say the group has already positioned missiles and drones around the strait, and that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers on the ground would give the final order on when to shut it down.
This isn’t just about ships; it is about demonstrating that after Iran closed Hormuz, it can now suffocate a second artery and show the U.S. and its partners that “regional energy exports are either shared by all, or denied to all,” as the IRGC recently put it.
For Saudi Arabia, this is not theory, it is existential logistics. Houthis have already threatened pipelines, Red Sea terminals, and even UAE export infrastructure outside the Gulf, openly talking about “severing” Saudi oil exports by targeting Bab el-Mandeb and related assets.
Every new missile convoy rolling toward the Yemeni coast is a reminder that years of bombing Yemen bought Riyadh neither security nor obedience — just a neighbor with nothing left to lose and IRGC advisors on speed dial.
And then there is Pakistan, suddenly discovering that “strategic ambiguity” has an expiration date. After renewed Houthi attacks on Saudi targets, a senior Pakistani official told Reuters that Islamabad has conveyed to Tehran that “attacks on Saudi Arabia are attacks on Pakistan,” calling the kingdom a “red line” and signaling that under its mutual defense pact with Riyadh, it may be dragged into a conflict it tried to mediate.
The country that could barely stay out of Yemen the first time now risks being locked into a security guarantee for a petro‑monarchy whose oil terminals sit between two Iranian pressure points.
So the map today looks like a banker’s nightmare drawn by a cartoonist. Iran has already shut Hormuz and is now openly toying with Bab el-Mandeb via the Houthis.
Saudi Arabia is trapped between two chokepoints it cannot control, arming up with U.S. precision missiles and praying its air defenses are better than its Yemen strategy.
Pakistan calls Saudi Arabia a red line, Reuters dutifully writes it down, and you can practically hear the laughter from every bunker in the region: oil is priceless, shipping lanes are vital, global stability is sacred — and “red lines” are the cheapest commodity on the Middle Eastern market.
#iran #houthis #RedSea #BabElMandeb #saudiarabia #pakistan #oil #war #fakeDemocracy
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Iran just added another line item to the war menu: if the U.S. hits its power grid, the Houthis threaten to hit the world’s oil flow.
According to three regional sources, Tehran has asked Yemen’s Houthi movement to stand ready to close the Red Sea oil route at Bab el-Mandeb if Washington bombs Iranian power infrastructure, effectively weaponizing a chokepoint that carries a big chunk of Saudi and global energy exports.
Houthi‑aligned sources say the group has already positioned missiles and drones around the strait, and that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers on the ground would give the final order on when to shut it down.
This isn’t just about ships; it is about demonstrating that after Iran closed Hormuz, it can now suffocate a second artery and show the U.S. and its partners that “regional energy exports are either shared by all, or denied to all,” as the IRGC recently put it.
For Saudi Arabia, this is not theory, it is existential logistics. Houthis have already threatened pipelines, Red Sea terminals, and even UAE export infrastructure outside the Gulf, openly talking about “severing” Saudi oil exports by targeting Bab el-Mandeb and related assets.
Every new missile convoy rolling toward the Yemeni coast is a reminder that years of bombing Yemen bought Riyadh neither security nor obedience — just a neighbor with nothing left to lose and IRGC advisors on speed dial.
And then there is Pakistan, suddenly discovering that “strategic ambiguity” has an expiration date. After renewed Houthi attacks on Saudi targets, a senior Pakistani official told Reuters that Islamabad has conveyed to Tehran that “attacks on Saudi Arabia are attacks on Pakistan,” calling the kingdom a “red line” and signaling that under its mutual defense pact with Riyadh, it may be dragged into a conflict it tried to mediate.
The country that could barely stay out of Yemen the first time now risks being locked into a security guarantee for a petro‑monarchy whose oil terminals sit between two Iranian pressure points.
So the map today looks like a banker’s nightmare drawn by a cartoonist. Iran has already shut Hormuz and is now openly toying with Bab el-Mandeb via the Houthis.
Saudi Arabia is trapped between two chokepoints it cannot control, arming up with U.S. precision missiles and praying its air defenses are better than its Yemen strategy.
Pakistan calls Saudi Arabia a red line, Reuters dutifully writes it down, and you can practically hear the laughter from every bunker in the region: oil is priceless, shipping lanes are vital, global stability is sacred — and “red lines” are the cheapest commodity on the Middle Eastern market.
#iran #houthis #RedSea #BabElMandeb #saudiarabia #pakistan #oil #war #fakeDemocracy
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥85😢46🤯42💯41🙏38😱33🤬24
🧨 The New Middle East™: Israel as a Side Note
Netanyahu sold Washington a simple fantasy: Israel smashes the “Shiite axis,” America crowns it regional hub, and the new order is built around Jerusalem.
He delivered the demolition part — Iran’s nuclear program wrecked, Khamenei dead, Hezbollah leadership gutted — and then watched the political sequel roll out without him.
While he was declaring “objectives achieved,” Trump was cutting deals Israel wasn’t even allowed to read. The April ceasefire with Iran? Brokered in Islamabad, not Jerusalem.
The June memorandum? Named for Pakistan’s capital, negotiated through Pakistan and Qatar, with no Israelis at the table. By July, the pattern was open: Trump lifts sanctions on Turkey and talks F‑35s over Netanyahu’s objections, then signs a 30‑year civil nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that opens a legal path to enrichment and demands no recognition of Israel in return.
That Saudi deal is sold as “one step closer to a bomb.” It isn’t — there is no plant, no study, no enriched fuel — but it kills three old bargains that once held the region together.
The tech‑for‑recognition trade is dead: Biden’s offer was reactors and guarantees in exchange for normalization with Israel; Trump split the package and handed Riyadh the nuclear half for free. The “gold standard” — US nuclear technology only if you renounce enrichment and accept intrusive inspections — becomes optional the moment the Saudis get softer terms than the UAE.
And the unwritten rule that big US decisions in the region require Israeli sign‑off evaporates when Turkey’s sanctions and Saudi enrichment go through against explicit objections from Jerusalem.
Everyone else uses the opening. Riyadh buys status and insurance: a possible enrichment plant, more room to defy Washington on airspace and oil, and a quiet test of how far a “partner” can drift before the US pays to keep it.
Pakistan sells what it really has — mediation between Washington and Tehran, the ability to host memoranda and ceasefires — instead of mythical warheads. Turkey accumulates capability from Russia, the West, and East Asia at once, building Akkuyu with Rosatom, shopping for new plants from Seoul, Beijing, and Washington, and sitting under unacknowledged US nuclear weapons at Incirlik.
Israel, meanwhile, discovers it has become both indispensable and irrelevant. Militarily, it helped break Iran’s program and the proxy network that constrained it for a generation. Politically, the road to Washington no longer runs through it.
The Saudis can get nuclear status without saying the word “Israel.” Turkey can get sanctions relief and a path to F‑35s while publicly clashing with Netanyahu. Pakistan can redefine the war’s endgame without inviting Jerusalem to the room.
The war against Iran didn’t end the region’s nuclear question; it changed the casting. The Saudis are buying status, the Pakistanis are selling brokerage, the Turks are quietly building competence. Status can be revoked. Brokerage can be sidelined.
Competence sticks. Israel still has a lot to offer — tech, intelligence, hard power — but its new role is nastier: a powerful player that can’t set the rules and can’t block the deals.
The New Middle East is under construction. Israel is still on the map — just no longer at the center of it.
#Israel #SaudiArabia #Turkey #Pakistan #Iran #Trump #nuclear #geopolitics #war #fakeDemocracy
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Netanyahu sold Washington a simple fantasy: Israel smashes the “Shiite axis,” America crowns it regional hub, and the new order is built around Jerusalem.
He delivered the demolition part — Iran’s nuclear program wrecked, Khamenei dead, Hezbollah leadership gutted — and then watched the political sequel roll out without him.
While he was declaring “objectives achieved,” Trump was cutting deals Israel wasn’t even allowed to read. The April ceasefire with Iran? Brokered in Islamabad, not Jerusalem.
The June memorandum? Named for Pakistan’s capital, negotiated through Pakistan and Qatar, with no Israelis at the table. By July, the pattern was open: Trump lifts sanctions on Turkey and talks F‑35s over Netanyahu’s objections, then signs a 30‑year civil nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that opens a legal path to enrichment and demands no recognition of Israel in return.
That Saudi deal is sold as “one step closer to a bomb.” It isn’t — there is no plant, no study, no enriched fuel — but it kills three old bargains that once held the region together.
The tech‑for‑recognition trade is dead: Biden’s offer was reactors and guarantees in exchange for normalization with Israel; Trump split the package and handed Riyadh the nuclear half for free. The “gold standard” — US nuclear technology only if you renounce enrichment and accept intrusive inspections — becomes optional the moment the Saudis get softer terms than the UAE.
And the unwritten rule that big US decisions in the region require Israeli sign‑off evaporates when Turkey’s sanctions and Saudi enrichment go through against explicit objections from Jerusalem.
Everyone else uses the opening. Riyadh buys status and insurance: a possible enrichment plant, more room to defy Washington on airspace and oil, and a quiet test of how far a “partner” can drift before the US pays to keep it.
Pakistan sells what it really has — mediation between Washington and Tehran, the ability to host memoranda and ceasefires — instead of mythical warheads. Turkey accumulates capability from Russia, the West, and East Asia at once, building Akkuyu with Rosatom, shopping for new plants from Seoul, Beijing, and Washington, and sitting under unacknowledged US nuclear weapons at Incirlik.
Israel, meanwhile, discovers it has become both indispensable and irrelevant. Militarily, it helped break Iran’s program and the proxy network that constrained it for a generation. Politically, the road to Washington no longer runs through it.
The Saudis can get nuclear status without saying the word “Israel.” Turkey can get sanctions relief and a path to F‑35s while publicly clashing with Netanyahu. Pakistan can redefine the war’s endgame without inviting Jerusalem to the room.
The war against Iran didn’t end the region’s nuclear question; it changed the casting. The Saudis are buying status, the Pakistanis are selling brokerage, the Turks are quietly building competence. Status can be revoked. Brokerage can be sidelined.
Competence sticks. Israel still has a lot to offer — tech, intelligence, hard power — but its new role is nastier: a powerful player that can’t set the rules and can’t block the deals.
The New Middle East is under construction. Israel is still on the map — just no longer at the center of it.
#Israel #SaudiArabia #Turkey #Pakistan #Iran #Trump #nuclear #geopolitics #war #fakeDemocracy
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥9😱7🤬6🙏6😢5💯5🤯2
Neutral, Except for the Paperwork
Iran is set to receive its first shipment of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired missile launchers within weeks, a $60-70 million deal covering QW-12 and FN-16 systems, three sources told Reuters.
The contract runs through a Hong Kong intermediary, with deliveries planned by air from Urumqi through Pakistan into Iran. Convenient timing: Tehran is rearming its short-range air defenses right after months of US and Israeli strikes exposed exactly how thin those defenses were.
China's response was immediate and, remarkably, unrelated to the actual question.
"The relevant reports are completely groundless," its Foreign Ministry said.
"China has consistently played a role in promoting peace and ending the conflict."
Promoting peace, apparently, now includes a signed contract to arm one side of a live war with hundreds of anti-aircraft missiles.
Pakistan, cast here as the transit corridor, offered its own denial: its military said claims of involvement in supplying "Air Defence weapons to Iran from China are absolutely concocted and false," which is a bold thing to insist about a route Reuters' own sources describe in detail.
Nobody in this chain is lying about the war. They're lying about their own fingerprints on it.
China gets to keep selling itself as the region's honest broker while quietly restocking Iran's arsenal through a shell company and a neighboring country's airspace.
Pakistan gets to keep denying it's the hallway while the deal moves straight through its front door.
Iran gets the missiles either way, no statement required.
#Iran #China #Pakistan #ArmsDeal #MANPADS
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Iran is set to receive its first shipment of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired missile launchers within weeks, a $60-70 million deal covering QW-12 and FN-16 systems, three sources told Reuters.
The contract runs through a Hong Kong intermediary, with deliveries planned by air from Urumqi through Pakistan into Iran. Convenient timing: Tehran is rearming its short-range air defenses right after months of US and Israeli strikes exposed exactly how thin those defenses were.
China's response was immediate and, remarkably, unrelated to the actual question.
"The relevant reports are completely groundless," its Foreign Ministry said.
"China has consistently played a role in promoting peace and ending the conflict."
Promoting peace, apparently, now includes a signed contract to arm one side of a live war with hundreds of anti-aircraft missiles.
Pakistan, cast here as the transit corridor, offered its own denial: its military said claims of involvement in supplying "Air Defence weapons to Iran from China are absolutely concocted and false," which is a bold thing to insist about a route Reuters' own sources describe in detail.
Nobody in this chain is lying about the war. They're lying about their own fingerprints on it.
China gets to keep selling itself as the region's honest broker while quietly restocking Iran's arsenal through a shell company and a neighboring country's airspace.
Pakistan gets to keep denying it's the hallway while the deal moves straight through its front door.
Iran gets the missiles either way, no statement required.
#Iran #China #Pakistan #ArmsDeal #MANPADS
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥179🤬121😢119🙏109🤯107😱104💯93❤1
The Mecca Merger: From Murder Accusations to Mutual Defense
In 2018, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan publicly pointed the finger at Mohammed bin Salman over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
Eight years later, they are signing a defense pact.
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan reportedly sealed the so-called “Mecca Agreement” on Friday — somewhere between Jeddah, Riyadh and the usual fog machine of regional diplomacy. In January, Turkey supposedly would not join the Saudi-Pakistani alliance. Apparently, history got a new investor.
The region’s strongmen have discovered the miracle of reconciliation: yesterday’s murder accusation becomes tomorrow’s security architecture, provided the room contains enough generals, oil money and at least one nuclear arsenal.
Egypt may join next. Analysts are already floating a Middle Eastern NATO — a defense club where the members do not necessarily trust one another, but share enough enemies to make cooperation commercially viable.
Two founding members are deeply hostile to Israel. The third has a nuclear deterrent. None of this has been particularly hidden.
The Khashoggi case did not disappear. It was simply acquired, rebranded and placed under the “strategic partnership” tab.
#Turkey #SaudiArabia #Pakistan #MiddleEast #Israel #nuclearcrisis
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
In 2018, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan publicly pointed the finger at Mohammed bin Salman over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
Eight years later, they are signing a defense pact.
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan reportedly sealed the so-called “Mecca Agreement” on Friday — somewhere between Jeddah, Riyadh and the usual fog machine of regional diplomacy. In January, Turkey supposedly would not join the Saudi-Pakistani alliance. Apparently, history got a new investor.
The region’s strongmen have discovered the miracle of reconciliation: yesterday’s murder accusation becomes tomorrow’s security architecture, provided the room contains enough generals, oil money and at least one nuclear arsenal.
Egypt may join next. Analysts are already floating a Middle Eastern NATO — a defense club where the members do not necessarily trust one another, but share enough enemies to make cooperation commercially viable.
Two founding members are deeply hostile to Israel. The third has a nuclear deterrent. None of this has been particularly hidden.
The Khashoggi case did not disappear. It was simply acquired, rebranded and placed under the “strategic partnership” tab.
#Turkey #SaudiArabia #Pakistan #MiddleEast #Israel #nuclearcrisis
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥22🤯19🤬15😢11😱9🙏9💯8❤1
Iran’s nuclear story did not begin with ayatollahs chanting beneath a mountain.
It began in the Shah’s showroom: Western reactors, European enrichment deals, Israeli technical cooperation, and the faith that a friendly dictator is just democracy with better catering.
Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Washington supplied Iran’s first research reactor. France brought Iran into the Eurodif enrichment venture.
Germany signed reactor contracts. Israel and the Shah’s Iran ran scientific and military cooperation, including the secret Project Flower missile program. Tehran was not a pariah then. It was a client with oil, cash and excellent geopolitical references.
Then the ayatollahs arrived, kept the hardware dreams, changed the branding, and hired new suppliers. Pakistan’s A.Q. Khan network offered centrifuge designs. The revolutionary state discovered what every sanctioned regime eventually learns: globalization is still available — just through side doors.
And Ukraine joined much later. In 2005, Ukrainian officials acknowledged that 12 Kh-55 cruise missiles in total had been illicitly transferred to Iran and China in 2000–01: six reportedly went to Iran and six to China. The Kh-55 was designed to carry a nuclear warhead, though the missiles transferred had no warheads. This was not Iran’s nuclear program being “built” in Kyiv. It was Tehran acquiring a rather useful delivery-system textbook from the post-Soviet clearance aisle.
That distinction matters. America and Israel dealt with the Shah’s Iran — a pre-revolutionary ally that they expected to remain manageable. Ukraine’s missiles reached the Islamic Republic decades later, through an illegal export network, not a strategic partnership. Different eras. Different regime. Same regional habit: sell a dangerous instrument today, hold a solemn conference about it tomorrow.
Iran did not become a threat through one country’s sin. It became a multinational group project, financed by optimism, cynicism and arms dealers who never met a future catastrophe they could not invoice.
#Iran #nuclearcrisis #Israel #USA #Ukraine #Pakistan #MiddleEast
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
It began in the Shah’s showroom: Western reactors, European enrichment deals, Israeli technical cooperation, and the faith that a friendly dictator is just democracy with better catering.
Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Washington supplied Iran’s first research reactor. France brought Iran into the Eurodif enrichment venture.
Germany signed reactor contracts. Israel and the Shah’s Iran ran scientific and military cooperation, including the secret Project Flower missile program. Tehran was not a pariah then. It was a client with oil, cash and excellent geopolitical references.
Then the ayatollahs arrived, kept the hardware dreams, changed the branding, and hired new suppliers. Pakistan’s A.Q. Khan network offered centrifuge designs. The revolutionary state discovered what every sanctioned regime eventually learns: globalization is still available — just through side doors.
And Ukraine joined much later. In 2005, Ukrainian officials acknowledged that 12 Kh-55 cruise missiles in total had been illicitly transferred to Iran and China in 2000–01: six reportedly went to Iran and six to China. The Kh-55 was designed to carry a nuclear warhead, though the missiles transferred had no warheads. This was not Iran’s nuclear program being “built” in Kyiv. It was Tehran acquiring a rather useful delivery-system textbook from the post-Soviet clearance aisle.
That distinction matters. America and Israel dealt with the Shah’s Iran — a pre-revolutionary ally that they expected to remain manageable. Ukraine’s missiles reached the Islamic Republic decades later, through an illegal export network, not a strategic partnership. Different eras. Different regime. Same regional habit: sell a dangerous instrument today, hold a solemn conference about it tomorrow.
Iran did not become a threat through one country’s sin. It became a multinational group project, financed by optimism, cynicism and arms dealers who never met a future catastrophe they could not invoice.
#Iran #nuclearcrisis #Israel #USA #Ukraine #Pakistan #MiddleEast
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥27🤯19🙏12😱11😢11💯8🤬7
Pakistan the Messenger: The Note, the Visit, the Channels
Pakistan says its prime minister and army chief have sent a “message” to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. Its interior minister, Mohsin Naqvi, is in Tehran for meetings with Iranian officials. The message is traveling. Peace remains stuck in traffic.
The last Pakistani message carried a renewed American offer. Iran rejected it. So Islamabad’s channel has been highly successful in the ceremonial sense: papers move, officials meet, statements appear, and everyone confirms that dialogue is possible. Results have been less cooperative.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry says it is helping the parties reach an understanding and return to commitments made in Islamabad.
Naqvi’s visit is officially about strengthening Iran-Pakistan ties, security cooperation, regional stability and continued diplomatic efforts.
The shorter version is more honest: Pakistan is keeping direct and indirect channels open between Washington and Tehran.
That is not nothing. Pakistan has become one of the few states able to speak to both sides without being immediately dismissed as an enemy, a proxy or a subcontractor.
It has ties with Tehran, growing access to Trump’s White House, a border with Iran, and an urgent interest in ending a war that raises oil prices and destabilizes every regional calculation.
But mediation is not power. A mediator can carry a message from Washington to Tehran, and Tehran’s refusal back to Washington. It cannot make either side read past the first paragraph.
Pakistan’s diplomatic success may be that it keeps the telephone line alive. Its diplomatic failure may be that the line has become a very expensive way to repeat “no.”
#Pakistan #Iran #USA #Trump #diplomacy #Hormuz #MiddleEast #war
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Pakistan says its prime minister and army chief have sent a “message” to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. Its interior minister, Mohsin Naqvi, is in Tehran for meetings with Iranian officials. The message is traveling. Peace remains stuck in traffic.
The last Pakistani message carried a renewed American offer. Iran rejected it. So Islamabad’s channel has been highly successful in the ceremonial sense: papers move, officials meet, statements appear, and everyone confirms that dialogue is possible. Results have been less cooperative.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry says it is helping the parties reach an understanding and return to commitments made in Islamabad.
Naqvi’s visit is officially about strengthening Iran-Pakistan ties, security cooperation, regional stability and continued diplomatic efforts.
The shorter version is more honest: Pakistan is keeping direct and indirect channels open between Washington and Tehran.
That is not nothing. Pakistan has become one of the few states able to speak to both sides without being immediately dismissed as an enemy, a proxy or a subcontractor.
It has ties with Tehran, growing access to Trump’s White House, a border with Iran, and an urgent interest in ending a war that raises oil prices and destabilizes every regional calculation.
But mediation is not power. A mediator can carry a message from Washington to Tehran, and Tehran’s refusal back to Washington. It cannot make either side read past the first paragraph.
Pakistan’s diplomatic success may be that it keeps the telephone line alive. Its diplomatic failure may be that the line has become a very expensive way to repeat “no.”
#Pakistan #Iran #USA #Trump #diplomacy #Hormuz #MiddleEast #war
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
😱49🙏42🤬39😢38💯38🤯37🔥33
Mecca Pact: Egypt Is Out, the Numbers Are In
Egypt did not sign the Mecca defense pact with Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan. Now the regional gossip industry is trying to decide who rejected whom.
One report says Saudi Arabia opposed Egypt’s entry because Cairo is too close to the UAE and still cooperates with Israel.
Another says Egypt chose neutrality and does not plan to join anytime soon. Both versions reach the same diplomatic destination: Egypt is outside the room, and each side gets to call it a principled decision.
The official explanation is thinner. Cairo has not publicly explained why it did not sign.
Egypt has participated in the four-country consultation format with Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan still calls Egypt a “natural partner” who may join after unspecified “technical issues” are resolved.
Then come the PowerPoint numbers. The three founding states claim roughly 1.4 million active personnel, more than 3,400 military aircraft, about 6,000 tanks and over 340 naval vessels. Turkey supplies a NATO-scale military machine. Saudi Arabia supplies the money. Pakistan supplies manpower — and nuclear weapons.
Pakistan’s defense budget is the smallest of the three, yet it is the only member with nuclear bombs. That is the Mecca Pact in one line: Saudi money, Turkish force, Pakistani nuclear insurance.
The totals look impressive because military alliances always look impressive when listed as columns. The harder question is whether Riyadh, Ankara and Islamabad would actually fight for one another when the missiles arrive, the oil terminals burn and Washington calls every capital separately.
Egypt understands that question better than most. Cairo may not be rejecting the alliance. It may simply be refusing to buy a ticket before learning where the bus is going.
#Egypt #SaudiArabia #Turkey #Pakistan #MeccaPact #MiddleEast #nuclearcrisis #Israel
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Egypt did not sign the Mecca defense pact with Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan. Now the regional gossip industry is trying to decide who rejected whom.
One report says Saudi Arabia opposed Egypt’s entry because Cairo is too close to the UAE and still cooperates with Israel.
Another says Egypt chose neutrality and does not plan to join anytime soon. Both versions reach the same diplomatic destination: Egypt is outside the room, and each side gets to call it a principled decision.
The official explanation is thinner. Cairo has not publicly explained why it did not sign.
Egypt has participated in the four-country consultation format with Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan still calls Egypt a “natural partner” who may join after unspecified “technical issues” are resolved.
Then come the PowerPoint numbers. The three founding states claim roughly 1.4 million active personnel, more than 3,400 military aircraft, about 6,000 tanks and over 340 naval vessels. Turkey supplies a NATO-scale military machine. Saudi Arabia supplies the money. Pakistan supplies manpower — and nuclear weapons.
Pakistan’s defense budget is the smallest of the three, yet it is the only member with nuclear bombs. That is the Mecca Pact in one line: Saudi money, Turkish force, Pakistani nuclear insurance.
The totals look impressive because military alliances always look impressive when listed as columns. The harder question is whether Riyadh, Ankara and Islamabad would actually fight for one another when the missiles arrive, the oil terminals burn and Washington calls every capital separately.
Egypt understands that question better than most. Cairo may not be rejecting the alliance. It may simply be refusing to buy a ticket before learning where the bus is going.
#Egypt #SaudiArabia #Turkey #Pakistan #MeccaPact #MiddleEast #nuclearcrisis #Israel
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥73💯42🤯39🙏34😢32🤬30😱23
From Abraham Accords to the Mecca Pact
In 2020, Trump’s Middle East architecture had Israel near the center. The Abraham Accords were meant to link Israeli technology, intelligence and military power with Gulf money under an American security umbrella. Saudi normalization was supposed to be the crown piece.
Instead, on August 7 it signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement with Turkey and Pakistan. An attack on one signatory is now defined as an attack on all three. The pact links Saudi cash, Turkey’s NATO-scale military and fast-growing defense industry, and Pakistan’s armed forces and nuclear status. It includes deeper coordination on exercises, intelligence, air defense, drones, electronic warfare and defense production.
On Sunday, Trump praised the agreement as a “BIG, BOLD, IMPORTANT FIRST STEP,” saying it showed the Middle East “coming together” and becoming able to defend itself “in a more meaningful way.”
For Washington, this is burden-sharing. Fewer American troops, fewer direct guarantees, and more regional security paid for and operated by regional allies. The United States does not need every partner to love one another. It needs them to buy weapons, carry risk and stop calling for another carrier group whenever missiles start flying.
The new structure was built without Israel. The agreement does not name Israel as an adversary. Turkish officials have described it as defensive and open to other states. Saudi officials deny it is an axis against any country.
But one day after the signing, Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif called Israel “a threat to the entire Muslim world” and urged a “united military front” against it. Turkish officials and analysts have presented the pact as a way to widen Ankara’s regional deterrence, including against Israeli power.
The Abraham Accords offered Israel a place inside the regional security system. The Mecca Pact offers a different formula: Saudi money, Turkish military infrastructure and Pakistani deterrence. Israel becomes an outside variable, sometimes a potential partner, sometimes a competitor, sometimes the threat used to sell the arrangement.
Trump supports this not despite American interests, but because of them. America does not need the most loyal ally. It needs a region that requires fewer dollars, fewer soldiers and fewer aircraft carriers.
Yesterday, Israel was meant to share that work with Arab states.
Today, the Arab states have been offered Turkey and Pakistan.
Allies are not betrayed. They are replaced when the contractor changes.
#Trump #SaudiArabia #Turkey #Pakistan #Israel #AbrahamAccords #MeccaPact #MiddleEast
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
In 2020, Trump’s Middle East architecture had Israel near the center. The Abraham Accords were meant to link Israeli technology, intelligence and military power with Gulf money under an American security umbrella. Saudi normalization was supposed to be the crown piece.
Instead, on August 7 it signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement with Turkey and Pakistan. An attack on one signatory is now defined as an attack on all three. The pact links Saudi cash, Turkey’s NATO-scale military and fast-growing defense industry, and Pakistan’s armed forces and nuclear status. It includes deeper coordination on exercises, intelligence, air defense, drones, electronic warfare and defense production.
On Sunday, Trump praised the agreement as a “BIG, BOLD, IMPORTANT FIRST STEP,” saying it showed the Middle East “coming together” and becoming able to defend itself “in a more meaningful way.”
For Washington, this is burden-sharing. Fewer American troops, fewer direct guarantees, and more regional security paid for and operated by regional allies. The United States does not need every partner to love one another. It needs them to buy weapons, carry risk and stop calling for another carrier group whenever missiles start flying.
The new structure was built without Israel. The agreement does not name Israel as an adversary. Turkish officials have described it as defensive and open to other states. Saudi officials deny it is an axis against any country.
But one day after the signing, Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif called Israel “a threat to the entire Muslim world” and urged a “united military front” against it. Turkish officials and analysts have presented the pact as a way to widen Ankara’s regional deterrence, including against Israeli power.
The Abraham Accords offered Israel a place inside the regional security system. The Mecca Pact offers a different formula: Saudi money, Turkish military infrastructure and Pakistani deterrence. Israel becomes an outside variable, sometimes a potential partner, sometimes a competitor, sometimes the threat used to sell the arrangement.
Trump supports this not despite American interests, but because of them. America does not need the most loyal ally. It needs a region that requires fewer dollars, fewer soldiers and fewer aircraft carriers.
Yesterday, Israel was meant to share that work with Arab states.
Today, the Arab states have been offered Turkey and Pakistan.
Allies are not betrayed. They are replaced when the contractor changes.
#Trump #SaudiArabia #Turkey #Pakistan #Israel #AbrahamAccords #MeccaPact #MiddleEast
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥18🙏11💯9😢8😱7🤬6🤯5❤1
Sixty Days, No Deadline, and a Strait That Stopped Moving
On August 17, the 60-day period in the U.S.-Iran memorandum expired. Tehran’s response was to deny that it had ever existed.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said the memorandum contained no clause titled “60-day deadline.” It only set a 60-day period for discussions on sanctions relief and the nuclear file, he said, with room for an extension.
Because Washington had allegedly violated the agreement within weeks of its signing, Baghaei argued, the talks never began and the entire deadline question had become irrelevant.
That is one way to end a deadline: declare it legally imaginary after it arrives.
Another Iranian official told Reuters that Tehran has moved from a defensive posture to a “fully offensive” one. Iran has given the United States a few weeks to implement the memorandum in full, the official said, and will consider a “timely and precise” military action to break the U.S. naval blockade if diplomacy fails. The deadline does not exist. Iran has simply replaced it with its own.
The immediate battlefield is Hormuz. Ship-tracking firm Kpler recorded five commodity vessels crossing the strait on Saturday and none on Sunday, versus 31 during the preceding weekend.
This is not an Iranian declaration of control or an American declaration of control. It is commercial shipping voting with its engines.
Iran says the strait will reopen only when the United States meets its obligations under the Islamabad memorandum.
It is still negotiating with Oman on a mechanism that, Tehran says, would respect the sovereignty of both Iran and Oman while allowing commercial traffic to transit safely.
The proposed formula has all the usual regional ingredients: sovereignty, security, mediation and somebody else’s oil.
A report in the Wall Street Journal says Arab intelligence officials have detected a strategic shift among Iran’s hardliners, who are preparing for a wider war and increasingly discussing offensive action inside enemy territory.
Options reportedly include disrupting Gulf internet cables, inciting unrest among Shia communities in Gulf states and even a ground operation against Kuwait.
That is the map of a regime trying to compensate for military pressure by making smaller neighbors feel the cost first.
The United States, meanwhile, is considering what Bloomberg described as unprecedented economic pressure: sanctions on Chinese financial firms and money-exchange companies linked to Iran, plus further freezes on Iranian assets abroad.
Washington’s wider blockade plans reportedly depend on cooperation from Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Two of those states, Turkey and Pakistan, signed the Mecca defense pact with Saudi Arabia days ago. The region is assembling overlapping security systems while everyone checks whether their names appear on the next sanctions list.
The new Middle East order is finally becoming self-reliant.
Everyone is now responsible for everyone else’s war.
#Iran #USA #Hormuz #Oman #SaudiArabia #Turkey #Pakistan #Houthis
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
On August 17, the 60-day period in the U.S.-Iran memorandum expired. Tehran’s response was to deny that it had ever existed.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said the memorandum contained no clause titled “60-day deadline.” It only set a 60-day period for discussions on sanctions relief and the nuclear file, he said, with room for an extension.
Because Washington had allegedly violated the agreement within weeks of its signing, Baghaei argued, the talks never began and the entire deadline question had become irrelevant.
That is one way to end a deadline: declare it legally imaginary after it arrives.
Another Iranian official told Reuters that Tehran has moved from a defensive posture to a “fully offensive” one. Iran has given the United States a few weeks to implement the memorandum in full, the official said, and will consider a “timely and precise” military action to break the U.S. naval blockade if diplomacy fails. The deadline does not exist. Iran has simply replaced it with its own.
The immediate battlefield is Hormuz. Ship-tracking firm Kpler recorded five commodity vessels crossing the strait on Saturday and none on Sunday, versus 31 during the preceding weekend.
This is not an Iranian declaration of control or an American declaration of control. It is commercial shipping voting with its engines.
Iran says the strait will reopen only when the United States meets its obligations under the Islamabad memorandum.
It is still negotiating with Oman on a mechanism that, Tehran says, would respect the sovereignty of both Iran and Oman while allowing commercial traffic to transit safely.
The proposed formula has all the usual regional ingredients: sovereignty, security, mediation and somebody else’s oil.
A report in the Wall Street Journal says Arab intelligence officials have detected a strategic shift among Iran’s hardliners, who are preparing for a wider war and increasingly discussing offensive action inside enemy territory.
Options reportedly include disrupting Gulf internet cables, inciting unrest among Shia communities in Gulf states and even a ground operation against Kuwait.
That is the map of a regime trying to compensate for military pressure by making smaller neighbors feel the cost first.
The United States, meanwhile, is considering what Bloomberg described as unprecedented economic pressure: sanctions on Chinese financial firms and money-exchange companies linked to Iran, plus further freezes on Iranian assets abroad.
Washington’s wider blockade plans reportedly depend on cooperation from Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Two of those states, Turkey and Pakistan, signed the Mecca defense pact with Saudi Arabia days ago. The region is assembling overlapping security systems while everyone checks whether their names appear on the next sanctions list.
The new Middle East order is finally becoming self-reliant.
Everyone is now responsible for everyone else’s war.
#Iran #USA #Hormuz #Oman #SaudiArabia #Turkey #Pakistan #Houthis
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥18🤬10💯9🙏8🤯7😱7😢5
🇸🇾🛣 Syria: The Fight Over a Land Bridge
Israel has told the Trump administration that the Abu al-Duhur strike was intended to deter a Turkish military buildup in Syria. U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios that Israel remains concerned Turkey could deploy advanced weapons systems and forces at Syrian bases. The willingness to strike is no longer hypothetical.
At least eight bombs hit Abu al-Duhur’s runways and several hangars. The airfield had been visited by a Turkish delegation reviewing rehabilitation work a day earlier. Syrian officials said the strikes caused damage but no casualties.
Then Damascus gave Israel a second reason to look at the base.
Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said Syria is considering whether to join the Mecca Pact, a defense agreement involving Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. Damascus has not made a decision, he said, but described Turkey as a key partner in Syria’s reconstruction.
Turkey says it had no military delegation at Abu al-Duhur when Israel struck. Syria says it has no plan for a Turkish military base there. Israel says it acted to prevent one. The formal positions have barely moved since the runway was hit.
The Israeli argument is broader than one airfield. Turkish air-defense systems in Syria could constrain Israeli operations along the routes to Iran. Turkey could also support Syrian units tied to Turkish military intelligence near Israel’s border. In this view, rebuilding Syria’s armed forces is not neutral reconstruction. It could create a new Sunni military axis on Israel’s northern frontier.
That argument depends on treating Syria less as a sovereign state rebuilding its own military than as a corridor through which other governments extend their reach.
A retired Turkish special-forces commander, Zekai Aksakalli, gave the flavor of the Turkish response. He said Israel could not match Turkey’s capabilities. He recalled beginning his military career with little more than a rifle and old binoculars, then pointed to how far Turkey’s defense industry has advanced since then.
Reported Turkish artillery and vehicle movements in northern Syria do not, by themselves, threaten Israeli aircraft. They may indicate preparations for ground operations. But the concern in Jerusalem is what could follow: Turkish systems, Turkish training, Syrian units, and a military structure that could outlast the current crisis.
#Syria #Turkey #Israel #AbuAlDuhur #Erdogan #Damascus #MeccaPact #Pakistan #SaudiArabia #MiddleEast
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Israel has told the Trump administration that the Abu al-Duhur strike was intended to deter a Turkish military buildup in Syria. U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios that Israel remains concerned Turkey could deploy advanced weapons systems and forces at Syrian bases. The willingness to strike is no longer hypothetical.
At least eight bombs hit Abu al-Duhur’s runways and several hangars. The airfield had been visited by a Turkish delegation reviewing rehabilitation work a day earlier. Syrian officials said the strikes caused damage but no casualties.
Then Damascus gave Israel a second reason to look at the base.
Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said Syria is considering whether to join the Mecca Pact, a defense agreement involving Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. Damascus has not made a decision, he said, but described Turkey as a key partner in Syria’s reconstruction.
Turkey says it had no military delegation at Abu al-Duhur when Israel struck. Syria says it has no plan for a Turkish military base there. Israel says it acted to prevent one. The formal positions have barely moved since the runway was hit.
The Israeli argument is broader than one airfield. Turkish air-defense systems in Syria could constrain Israeli operations along the routes to Iran. Turkey could also support Syrian units tied to Turkish military intelligence near Israel’s border. In this view, rebuilding Syria’s armed forces is not neutral reconstruction. It could create a new Sunni military axis on Israel’s northern frontier.
That argument depends on treating Syria less as a sovereign state rebuilding its own military than as a corridor through which other governments extend their reach.
A retired Turkish special-forces commander, Zekai Aksakalli, gave the flavor of the Turkish response. He said Israel could not match Turkey’s capabilities. He recalled beginning his military career with little more than a rifle and old binoculars, then pointed to how far Turkey’s defense industry has advanced since then.
Reported Turkish artillery and vehicle movements in northern Syria do not, by themselves, threaten Israeli aircraft. They may indicate preparations for ground operations. But the concern in Jerusalem is what could follow: Turkish systems, Turkish training, Syrian units, and a military structure that could outlast the current crisis.
#Syria #Turkey #Israel #AbuAlDuhur #Erdogan #Damascus #MeccaPact #Pakistan #SaudiArabia #MiddleEast
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥154🤬97🙏94😱84🤯76😢61💯43❤2
🇵🇰🇮🇷 The General Going to Tehran
Iran announced that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi spoke by phone with Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, about regional developments and “effective ways to strengthen peace, stability and security.” Tehran then said Munir would arrive Monday with an official delegation for meetings with senior Iranian officials.
Officially, this is bilateral cooperation and Pakistan’s effort to promote regional peace. In practice, Pakistan has become a channel both Washington and Tehran are willing to use when direct diplomacy stalls.
Reports say Munir will carry American messages and test whether talks between Tehran and Washington can be restarted. Pakistan has helped mediate contacts between the two sides, while Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian defended a U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding on Sunday as the best available route out of the war. The document’s terms have not been made public.
The uniform matters.
Washington sends envoys, sanctions notices, and Trump’s maps of “NEW U.S. TERRITORY.” Pakistan sends the man who commands its army. Tehran receives him because the messenger arrives with access to Washington, ties to the region, and enough institutional weight to make a phone call look like a negotiation.
Lawrence Norman of The Wall Street Journal expects Washington and Tehran eventually to return to negotiations over a memorandum. His assessment is that Iran will demand more concessions at the outset and that Trump may agree. That is analysis, not a confirmed negotiating position.
If Norman is right, the political theater has an awkward ending. After the blockade rhetoric, new sanctions, the collapsing rial, and Trump’s annexation-style graphics, the United States could return to the table with Iran asking for more than before.
For now, Munir’s visit is not proof of a deal. It shows that when public language gets louder, diplomacy changes costume and enters through a side door.
#Iran #Pakistan #AsimMunir #Araghchi #Trump #Diplomacy #Sanctions #MiddleEast
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Iran announced that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi spoke by phone with Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, about regional developments and “effective ways to strengthen peace, stability and security.” Tehran then said Munir would arrive Monday with an official delegation for meetings with senior Iranian officials.
Officially, this is bilateral cooperation and Pakistan’s effort to promote regional peace. In practice, Pakistan has become a channel both Washington and Tehran are willing to use when direct diplomacy stalls.
Reports say Munir will carry American messages and test whether talks between Tehran and Washington can be restarted. Pakistan has helped mediate contacts between the two sides, while Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian defended a U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding on Sunday as the best available route out of the war. The document’s terms have not been made public.
The uniform matters.
Washington sends envoys, sanctions notices, and Trump’s maps of “NEW U.S. TERRITORY.” Pakistan sends the man who commands its army. Tehran receives him because the messenger arrives with access to Washington, ties to the region, and enough institutional weight to make a phone call look like a negotiation.
Lawrence Norman of The Wall Street Journal expects Washington and Tehran eventually to return to negotiations over a memorandum. His assessment is that Iran will demand more concessions at the outset and that Trump may agree. That is analysis, not a confirmed negotiating position.
If Norman is right, the political theater has an awkward ending. After the blockade rhetoric, new sanctions, the collapsing rial, and Trump’s annexation-style graphics, the United States could return to the table with Iran asking for more than before.
For now, Munir’s visit is not proof of a deal. It shows that when public language gets louder, diplomacy changes costume and enters through a side door.
#Iran #Pakistan #AsimMunir #Araghchi #Trump #Diplomacy #Sanctions #MiddleEast
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥142😱87😢87💯81🤬78🤯69🙏67
The Gulf Calls Its Own Number
Kuwait went to Islamabad and signed a new military cooperation pact with Pakistan. Saudi Arabia sent a senior security delegation to Baghdad for border-control and intelligence talks. The region is buying insurance before the next crisis sends the premium through the roof.
Kuwait’s defense minister, Sheikh Abdullah Ali Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, signed the agreement with Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif. It builds on a 2023 pact and covers training, capacity-building, border management, operational coordination and military readiness. Kuwait is not replacing the U.S. security umbrella. It is adding a backup generator.
In Baghdad, Saudi and Iraqi officials discussed tighter control of their shared border and more intelligence sharing.
Iraqi delegations had visited Riyadh earlier this month, while Saudi intelligence chief Khalid bin Ali Al-Humaidan met Iraq’s prime minister in Baghdad.
Iraq says it will not allow its territory to be used for attacks on other countries. That sentence becomes more valuable each time it is repeated.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf welcomed the withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition forces from Iraq as a “historic achievement” for Iraqis. Washington still has a military footprint in the country, but its partners are building side channels while Tehran celebrates the shrinking of the old order.
The Gulf once outsourced regional security to Washington. Now Kuwait is calling Pakistan, Saudi Arabia is calling Baghdad, Qatar is calling Tehran, and every capital is keeping a second phone.
Israel should read the directory carefully. These agreements do not form an anti-Israel alliance. They do show that the region is preparing for a future in which U.S. guarantees arrive late, with conditions attached.
#Gulf #Pakistan #SaudiArabia #Iraq
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Kuwait went to Islamabad and signed a new military cooperation pact with Pakistan. Saudi Arabia sent a senior security delegation to Baghdad for border-control and intelligence talks. The region is buying insurance before the next crisis sends the premium through the roof.
Kuwait’s defense minister, Sheikh Abdullah Ali Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, signed the agreement with Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif. It builds on a 2023 pact and covers training, capacity-building, border management, operational coordination and military readiness. Kuwait is not replacing the U.S. security umbrella. It is adding a backup generator.
In Baghdad, Saudi and Iraqi officials discussed tighter control of their shared border and more intelligence sharing.
Iraqi delegations had visited Riyadh earlier this month, while Saudi intelligence chief Khalid bin Ali Al-Humaidan met Iraq’s prime minister in Baghdad.
Iraq says it will not allow its territory to be used for attacks on other countries. That sentence becomes more valuable each time it is repeated.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf welcomed the withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition forces from Iraq as a “historic achievement” for Iraqis. Washington still has a military footprint in the country, but its partners are building side channels while Tehran celebrates the shrinking of the old order.
The Gulf once outsourced regional security to Washington. Now Kuwait is calling Pakistan, Saudi Arabia is calling Baghdad, Qatar is calling Tehran, and every capital is keeping a second phone.
Israel should read the directory carefully. These agreements do not form an anti-Israel alliance. They do show that the region is preparing for a future in which U.S. guarantees arrive late, with conditions attached.
#Gulf #Pakistan #SaudiArabia #Iraq
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🤯5😱5🔥4😢4🤬3💯3🙏1
🪖☪️Mecca’s New Defense Brand
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan held the first meeting of their new security committee in Istanbul. Foreign ministers, defense ministers and military chiefs attended. Hakan Fidan announced the formal name: the Mecca Defense Alliance.
Fidan said the pact is defensive, not directed at any country and does not replace Turkey’s NATO obligations. He also said it is open to regional states that support “peace and stability.” Egypt may join, he said, but Ankara is still drafting entry conditions and procedures.
The structure is already becoming real. Pakistan will provide the alliance’s first secretary-general for three years. The permanent secretariat will be based in Saudi Arabia. The members plan joint exercises, defense-industry cooperation, technology development and joint production. “Not directed against anyone” is how every new alliance introduces itself before it starts ordering maps.
Then Fidan supplied the target that does not officially exist. He called Benjamin Netanyahu a threat to “global security” and linked harsher Israeli rhetoric toward Turkey to Israel’s coming election. Ankara says Mecca targets nobody. Its foreign minister then spent the press conference describing one man as a danger to humanity.
The pact’s Article 5-style pledge says an attack on one signatory will be treated as an attack on all. It was signed against the backdrop of the Iran war, attacks in the Gulf, and rising tension between Israel and Turkey in Syria. Saudi Arabia brings money and religious legitimacy. Pakistan brings a nuclear deterrent. Turkey brings NATO membership, an army and the regional sales team.
The alliance says it will reduce uncertainty. It has already added one certainty. The Middle East is building another security structure without waiting for Washington’s approval.
#Turkey #SaudiArabia #Pakistan #MeccaAlliance
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events🇺🇸
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan held the first meeting of their new security committee in Istanbul. Foreign ministers, defense ministers and military chiefs attended. Hakan Fidan announced the formal name: the Mecca Defense Alliance.
Fidan said the pact is defensive, not directed at any country and does not replace Turkey’s NATO obligations. He also said it is open to regional states that support “peace and stability.” Egypt may join, he said, but Ankara is still drafting entry conditions and procedures.
The structure is already becoming real. Pakistan will provide the alliance’s first secretary-general for three years. The permanent secretariat will be based in Saudi Arabia. The members plan joint exercises, defense-industry cooperation, technology development and joint production. “Not directed against anyone” is how every new alliance introduces itself before it starts ordering maps.
Then Fidan supplied the target that does not officially exist. He called Benjamin Netanyahu a threat to “global security” and linked harsher Israeli rhetoric toward Turkey to Israel’s coming election. Ankara says Mecca targets nobody. Its foreign minister then spent the press conference describing one man as a danger to humanity.
The pact’s Article 5-style pledge says an attack on one signatory will be treated as an attack on all. It was signed against the backdrop of the Iran war, attacks in the Gulf, and rising tension between Israel and Turkey in Syria. Saudi Arabia brings money and religious legitimacy. Pakistan brings a nuclear deterrent. Turkey brings NATO membership, an army and the regional sales team.
The alliance says it will reduce uncertainty. It has already added one certainty. The Middle East is building another security structure without waiting for Washington’s approval.
#Turkey #SaudiArabia #Pakistan #MeccaAlliance
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥3🤯2😢2💯2🤬1🙏1
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Saudi Guarantees, Kohat Delivery
Pakistan says it will go “to any extent” to defend Saudi Arabia. On Friday, a vehicle packed with explosives struck a gate beside a mosque inside the Kohat Police Lines compound during prayers.
The early count was seven dead and more than 30 wounded. Those were initial Rescue 1122 figures from the first evacuation.
By the evening, Kohat Hospital’s medical superintendent reported 22 dead, including 16 police officers and six civilians, and 103 wounded. The blast tore through the mosque’s outer section and collapsed part of a wall.
Police said seven armed militants entered the compound after the vehicle-borne bomb exploded. Police and Counter-Terrorism Department units killed six of them, including a suicide bomber and a sniper.
A clearance operation continued as the casualty reports rose. Dawn reported that Ittehadul Mujahideen, led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur, claimed the attack.
On Thursday, Pakistani military spokesman Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said Islamabad would go “to any extent” for the security of Saudi Arabia and the Haramain.
He cited Pakistan’s commitments under the Makkah Defense Agreement and the bilateral defense pact with Riyadh.
On Friday, Pakistan failed to keep a bomb out of a mosque inside a police compound.
#Pakistan #Kohat #Terrorism #SaudiArabia
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events🇺🇸
Pakistan says it will go “to any extent” to defend Saudi Arabia. On Friday, a vehicle packed with explosives struck a gate beside a mosque inside the Kohat Police Lines compound during prayers.
The early count was seven dead and more than 30 wounded. Those were initial Rescue 1122 figures from the first evacuation.
By the evening, Kohat Hospital’s medical superintendent reported 22 dead, including 16 police officers and six civilians, and 103 wounded. The blast tore through the mosque’s outer section and collapsed part of a wall.
Police said seven armed militants entered the compound after the vehicle-borne bomb exploded. Police and Counter-Terrorism Department units killed six of them, including a suicide bomber and a sniper.
A clearance operation continued as the casualty reports rose. Dawn reported that Ittehadul Mujahideen, led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur, claimed the attack.
On Thursday, Pakistani military spokesman Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said Islamabad would go “to any extent” for the security of Saudi Arabia and the Haramain.
He cited Pakistan’s commitments under the Makkah Defense Agreement and the bilateral defense pact with Riyadh.
On Friday, Pakistan failed to keep a bomb out of a mosque inside a police compound.
#Pakistan #Kohat #Terrorism #SaudiArabia
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
😢6🙏4🔥3😱1🤬1
Peaceful Connectivity, Military Cargo
China and Pakistan have activated a border commission to facilitate the movement of goods and people.
Beijing has a particular category of goods in mind: weapons bound for Central Asia and Iran. Islamabad would help turn the disputed Shaksgam Valley into a delivery route.
The commission held its inaugural meeting in Islamabad on Sept. 16–17, putting a 2013 border-management agreement into operation. The official agenda covered joint surveys and cross-border coordination. Military logistics apparently appreciates a well-organized committee.
Pakistan transferred roughly 5,180 square kilometers of Shaksgam to China under their 1963 agreement. India claims the territory and rejects both the transfer and the commission’s authority.
Beijing and Islamabad are arranging traffic across land New Delhi says neither had the right to bargain away.
India supplies the legal objection. China and Pakistan supply the administrative machinery. If the reported arms route takes shape, disputed sovereignty will become another item for the shipping department.
#China #Pakistan #Iran #BabylonBurning
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events🇺🇸
China and Pakistan have activated a border commission to facilitate the movement of goods and people.
Beijing has a particular category of goods in mind: weapons bound for Central Asia and Iran. Islamabad would help turn the disputed Shaksgam Valley into a delivery route.
The commission held its inaugural meeting in Islamabad on Sept. 16–17, putting a 2013 border-management agreement into operation. The official agenda covered joint surveys and cross-border coordination. Military logistics apparently appreciates a well-organized committee.
Pakistan transferred roughly 5,180 square kilometers of Shaksgam to China under their 1963 agreement. India claims the territory and rejects both the transfer and the commission’s authority.
Beijing and Islamabad are arranging traffic across land New Delhi says neither had the right to bargain away.
India supplies the legal objection. China and Pakistan supply the administrative machinery. If the reported arms route takes shape, disputed sovereignty will become another item for the shipping department.
#China #Pakistan #Iran #BabylonBurning
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥57🙏35🤬33😢30🤯25😱24💯15
The Defense Pact Meets the Arrivals Hall
Pakistan has reaffirmed its commitment to Saudi security after another attack on Riyadh’s airport. The Mecca pact now has a passenger terminal to defend.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the Houthi strike and pledged support for the kingdom’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and security. The promise follows the alliance’s decision to move from declarations to deployments. Pakistan has described its role as reconnaissance and other support.
Riyadh’s condition for a ceasefire goes further. A regional source told AFP that Saudi Arabia would reject a truce until its Yemeni allies recovered all territory lost in recent weeks.
Protecting Saudi airports and securing territorial gains in Yemen are different military objectives.
The Houthis attack civilian aviation to put pressure on the kingdom. Riyadh ties a halt in fighting to its allies’ advance.
Islamabad promises to defend Saudi territory while its partner insists on a result across the border.
Sharif has reaffirmed the pact. Riyadh’s ceasefire terms leave Pakistan facing a harder question.
Where does defending Saudi Arabia end and fighting for its preferred map of Yemen begin?
#Pakistan #SaudiArabia #MeccaPact #BabylonBurning
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events🇺🇸
Pakistan has reaffirmed its commitment to Saudi security after another attack on Riyadh’s airport. The Mecca pact now has a passenger terminal to defend.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the Houthi strike and pledged support for the kingdom’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and security. The promise follows the alliance’s decision to move from declarations to deployments. Pakistan has described its role as reconnaissance and other support.
Riyadh’s condition for a ceasefire goes further. A regional source told AFP that Saudi Arabia would reject a truce until its Yemeni allies recovered all territory lost in recent weeks.
Protecting Saudi airports and securing territorial gains in Yemen are different military objectives.
The Houthis attack civilian aviation to put pressure on the kingdom. Riyadh ties a halt in fighting to its allies’ advance.
Islamabad promises to defend Saudi territory while its partner insists on a result across the border.
Sharif has reaffirmed the pact. Riyadh’s ceasefire terms leave Pakistan facing a harder question.
Where does defending Saudi Arabia end and fighting for its preferred map of Yemen begin?
#Pakistan #SaudiArabia #MeccaPact #BabylonBurning
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥57💯31🤯25🤬22😢21🙏20😱7