Arab channels mock The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement - a mutual-defense pact signed on August 7, 2026, by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan.

“Saudi Arabia says to Pakistan: Where are you?  
And Pakistan turns to Turkey: Where are you?  
And Turkey says to Iran: Stop the Ansar Allah!  
And thus the "tripartite alliance" turns into a game of passing the buck:  
Each party waits for the other, and the other waits for the one after!  
And at the first real test, everyone discovered that the alliance was just ink on paper, and an echo”