Mike Pompeo urges other countries to help protect tankers after Gulf attacks

Secretary of state says shipping security was not exclusively a US problem and stresses that Trump does not want war with IranWashington has blamed recent attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Iran. Photograph: -/AFP/Getty ImagesThe US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has called on other nations to help safeguard tanker traffic in the Persian Gulf following a spate of attacks on ships which Washington blames on Iran.On a visit to US Central Command headquarters, Pompeo said shipping secu