JasonMBrodskyThere are so many people hyping this Mecca Defense Alliance meeting in #Iran today. The real test is does #Iran's regime still have an IRGC, especially a Quds Force? The answer is yes. So there will be a variation of the same problems. A new meeting in a new format with different people complete with soaring rhetoric is not going to change this.
And we've seen this movie before. For example, the Organization of the Islamic Conference held a meeting in Iran in 1997, where Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah became the most senior Saudi official to visit Iran since 1979. Fast forward to today, the proxy wars and instability have continued.
I would also point out, as some regional commentators have noted, that the Saudi defense minister visited Iran to meet with Ali Khamenei himself in April 2025 before Operation Midnight Hammer in June 2025--delivering a message offering cooperation. Khamenei said to him, "it is far better for brothers in the region to cooperate with and assist each another than to depend on others." Fast forward to 2026, the Houthis are rocketing Saudi Arabia and Iran's regime has bombed its neighbors multiple times.
So I would curb some of the irrational exuberance here. As long as the Iranian regime is in power, there will be instability and no amount of new meetings in creative formats is going to change it.
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