Officials from Mecca pact countries to meet Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday
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KARACHI/CAIRO: Top officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan met Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday in a bid to de-escalate the Middle East conflict, as Yemen’s Houthis launched new attackson Saudi Arabia and Egypt approved defence support for the Gulf kingdom. The talks were the first high-level contact between Iran and the three nations, which signed the Makkah mutual defence pactin August, since a war that began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran also spread to Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
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