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‘Unmistakable:’ Pompeo says U.S. has evidence Iran carried out attacks on oil tankers

"The American people should rest assured we have high confidence with respect to who conducted these attacks as well as who conducted other attacks within the last 40 days," said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (Associated Press/File)

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says it is “unmistakable” that Iran attacked two oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz last week.

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FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2018 file photo, a migrant woman helps carry a handmade U.S. flag up the riverbank at the Mexico-U.S. border after getting past Mexican police at the Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, as a group of migrants tries to reach the U.S. Activists, officials and social workers in Central America were staggered by the idea that U.S. President Donald Trump thinks he will help reduce immigration, by cutting off nearly $500 million in aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador; exactly the opposite will happen, they say. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

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Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, joined at left by Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, speaks to an aide as the Democrat-controlled panel pushed ahead with their oversight of the Trump administration at a hearing to examine how the Russian government works to undermine its adversaries, especially the U.S., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 28, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

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