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"textContent": "US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (left) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine hold a briefing on Iran at the Pentagon. Photo: Reuters \n\n \n\nThe Pentagon is playing down concerns that the attack on Iran risked plunging the US into a new, open-ended conflict in the Middle East, even as officials declined to give a timeline and cautioned they expected more American casualties.",
"title": "Iran won't be an endless war: Pentagon"
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