Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may cancel his trip to the Middle East amid rising tensions there, a government source said Wednesday, as Tokyo ramped up calls to deescalate the situation through diplomacy after Iran's attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq.Abe was initially planning to visit Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman from Saturday ahead of Japan's envisaged dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces to the Middle East on an information-gathering mission designed to help secure the safe passage of commercial ships.The decision comes as Iran launched more than a dozen missiles targ…READ FULL ARTICLE
