Saudi Crown Prince spoke with Kuwait's Emir about condemning Iranian attacks on Wednesday. Pakistan's Prime Minister contacted him, calling Houthi strikes in the Red Sea 'wrong.outrageous.'. In Washington, discussions focus on a planned US-Saudi nuclear agreement. The pact is tied to Riyadh accepting Israel under conditions set by ex president Donald Trump. Iranian officials are assessing how the deal might shift the wider regional order. Watchers say that the pair of tracks of defence talks and statecraft has put Saudi Arabia at the heart of Middle Eastern statecraft. Behind the scenes contacts between the kingdom and American officials have continued for weeks, even as strikes and counter strikes have grabbed the news. One western diplomat said the atomic talks was now woven into the normalisation file. Within Saudi planning rooms, the emphasis has stayed on keeping the kingdom safe, rather than public posturing. At the same time, Tehran is reportedly weighing responses if the deal moves forward, with one senior Iranian figure warning of new pressure across the region.