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Analysts and Iranian officials said Tehran does not view the newly signed Saudi Arabia-Pakistan-Turkey defence pact as an immediate threat, with Iranian commentary instead emphasising what it sees as evidence of a diminishing US security role in the region. The pact commits the three signatories to treat an attack on any one of them as an attack on all. For Iran, the arrangement complicates the regional balance by knitting together two Sunni-majority powers and a nuclear-armed South Asian state, but Tehran's public posture has been to frame it as a sign of Washington's retreat rather than as encirclement. Iranian officials have long sought improved ties with Riyadh and maintain working relations with Ankara and Islamabad, which shapes their measured reaction. The response matters for how Iran positions itself amid shifting Middle Eastern alignments.