Following the Tehran regime’s repeated attacks on Gulf countries, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, warned that the Kingdom’s restraint in the face of escalating Iranian aggression “is not unlimited”, signaling that military action remains on the table, as Arab and Islamic states issued a unified call for Tehran to halt its aggression. While the Kingdom is facing repeated Iranian attacks targeting key installations, including energy infrastructure, Pakistan—despite signing a ‘Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement (SMDA)’ with Riyadh in September last year—has remained conspicuously silent. Instead, Islamabad continues to appease Tehran, despite having received massive financial and strategic support from the Kingdom for decades.

It is worth noting that relations between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan span more than seven decades, with the deployment of Pakistani military personnel for Saudi security forming an institutionalized arrangement over the years. Furthermore, hundreds of thousands of Pakistani nationals are employed in the Kingdom, significantly contributing to Islamabad’s foreign currency earnings.

Amid ongoing US-Israeli offensives targeting the Tehran regime’s power centers—such as the IRGC, Basij, and missile and drone storage facilities—Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in a statement on March 7, publicly apologized for hostile actions across the Gulf. “I personally apologize to the neighboring countries that were affected by Iran’s actions”, he said in a televised address. “What happened was that our commanders and our leader lost their lives following barbaric aggression, and our armed forces fired at will in the absence of leadership, acting on their own judgment”. Despite such statements, the Tehran regime has........

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