Israel has been conducting direct, sensitive security talks with several Arab governments—including states with which Jerusalem maintains no formal diplomatic ties—to establish a coordinated defense axis against Iranian aggression, senior Gulf officials revealed on Wednesday.
The strategic coordination is advancing along two parallel, synchronized tracks. The first consists of direct, discrete bilateral consultations between senior Israeli defense officials and representatives of regional Arab governments. The second operates through a dedicated regional forum bringing together Israel, the United States, and Arab partners to align defense doctrine and contingency planning.
This multilateral body serves as an institutional continuation of the secret ten-nation summit held in Abu Dhabi, which Channel 14 first broke. That confidential assembly gathered top-tier defense and intelligence delegations from across the Middle East and North Africa, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Libya. The primary focus of current consultations centers on the acute threat of Iranian military escalation and the diplomatic parameters surrounding potential negotiations between Washington and Tehran.
Arab governments involved in the discussions are firmly demanding direct participation in formulating any future international agreement with Iran, refusing to be sidelined as regional bystanders. The participating nations have established a firm, non-negotiable baseline of requirements, which includes ironclad security guarantees against Iranian missile and drone strikes, unimpeded international freedom of navigation through the vital maritime transit chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz, and the verifiable removal of all stockpiles of enriched uranium from Iranian soil.
American government officials who participated in the regional forum have already formally conveyed this unified Arab-Israeli posture directly to U.S. President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, defense planners in the forum are preparing joint operational responses for worst-case regional developments. Among the primary contingency scenarios currently being evaluated are long-range Iranian missile launches directed toward targets in mainland Europe, as well as the immediate ground threat of an Iranian-backed armored or proxy assault pushing across the border toward Kuwait.