As the Houthis in Yemen intensify their missile and drone attacks against Saudi Arabia, the military administrations of Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are coming together to discuss the support to be given to Riyadh.
The Ministry of National Defense announced that Chief of General Staff General Selçuk Bayraktaroğlu will go to Saudi Arabia on Friday to meet with his Saudi and Pakistani counterparts.
The talks are being conducted within the scope of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, which the three countries signed in August.
In accordance with the agreement, which considers an attack on one of the parties as an attack on all parties, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey had previously condemned the attacks targeting Mecca and civilian settlements and decided to hold an emergency meeting of the chiefs of staff.
The Ankara administration noted that since the agreement has not yet been approved by the Turkish Grand National Assembly, the support at this stage will be limited to the bilateral level and in the spirit of solidarity, and will focus on meeting military needs, especially in technical areas.
While the war continued, Washington introduced secondary sanctions targeting third country companies in order to increase economic pressure on Iran.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called the new restrictions on Iran's aviation sector a "day of economic war" and said that 80 to 90 percent of Iran's foreign flights have stopped.
Following the new sanctions, regional countries began to close their airspace and airports to Iranian planes.
Following the United Arab Emirates and Oman, Iran flights were suspended at Baghdad, Najaf and two other airports in Iraq on Friday.
Georgia and Azerbaijan also officially confirmed that they stopped flights to Tehran. China, on the other hand, described the unilateral sanctions as illegal and continued to allow Mahan Air planes departing from Tehran to fly to Guangzhou and Shanghai.
Although some flights were operated from Tehran to Istanbul, Kabul and Yerevan, many flights were cancelled.
According to the Reuters agency, the Tehran administration reacted harshly to the flight bans.
Mohammad Muhbir, advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, accused the countries in the region of aligning with the USA and said, "If Iran cannot fly and get airport service, no country in the region can have this opportunity."
Head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezai, also threatened in his statement to state television that the airports of neighboring countries that cooperate with Washington will no longer be able to operate flights to Iran.
Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian, who is in New York, emphasized that the people's resistance against the pressures of the USA will become even stronger.
Diplomatic channels are also operated during the United Nations General Assembly contacts in New York.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arakchi announced that they submitted a proposal to Washington, including ceasefire conditions, through mediators.
According to the draft, conflicts on all fronts, including Lebanon, will cease within seven days, the US will lift the port blockade, release frozen Iranian funds and waive oil sanctions.
Arakchi said that if the conditions are met, the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened on the last day and then nuclear negotiations can begin.
Speaking to the AFP agency, an unnamed senior Iranian official stated that Tehran was evaluating the US response, while the expectation of a possible compromise caused oil prices to decline in international markets.
