Yemen¡¯s Iran-aligned Houthis have attacked Saudi Aramco¡¯s Jazan refinery, they said on Sunday, two days after the kingdom signed a defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan in response to growing regional instability from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
The alliance with Sunni Muslim U.S. allies, Turkey and Pakistan, is intended to strengthen collective deterrence against any act of aggression and stipulates that an armed attack against any of the three would ?be regarded as an attack on all.
It was not clear whether or how either Pakistan or Turkey would join in any Saudi ?response ?to the latest attacks.
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