NEW: Iran likely used its meeting with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey to pressure the trio of countries to help forge a US-Iran deal that would achieve key Iranian objectives. Iran is presumably attempting to exploit regional concerns that renewed fighting and US-Iran tensions could embroil regional countries in the future and is aiming to portray the United States as the source of the problem. Other Key Takeaways: Iranian-backed Iraqi militias almost certainly used two drones to surveil the US Embassy in Baghdad on October 27 in order to threaten and deter the United States from striking Iran. The militias’ decision to use drones is more subtle than previous militia threats and is likely a response to the changing political situation in Iraq and Iranian preferences. The Houthis are attempting to deter Egypt from furnishing Saudi Arabia with defensive military support following Egypt’s parliament approval of “purely defensive” military assistance to Saudi Arabia, including Egyptian forces that will remain in Saudi territory and not assist in Saudi attacks on Houthi targets, on October 26.