🔺Saudi defense minister holds an emergency meeting with Trump and Vance after attacks in Iraq

▪Axios has reported on an “emergency” meeting between Saudi Arabia’s defense minister and the U.S. president and his vice president following joint U.S. and Saudi attacks on positions of militias supported by the Islamic Republic in Iraq.

▪According to an informed source, the purpose of these meetings was to convey a message from Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, regarding the war with Iran and the state of the region.

▪Axios has not mentioned details of Khalid bin Salman’s meeting with Donald Trump, but the report adds that, during his meeting with J.D. Vance, he said that attacks by Iraqi militias supported by the Islamic Republic on Saudi Arabia’s infrastructure and energy facilities crossed a “red line,” and that Riyadh was forced to respond.