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US Looks for 'International Consensus' on Global Threat from Iran

Carla Babb

   PENTAGON - Margaret Besheer and Wayne Lee contributed to this report.

   U.S. Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan said the United States is trying
   to build "international consensus" in the Middle East after a dawn
   attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.

   "We obviously need to make contingency plans should the situation
   deteriorate, but we also need to broaden our support for this
   international situation," Shanahan said Friday.

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