2026-08-21T11:27:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
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埃米特·莱昂斯是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻伦敦分社的新闻编辑部编辑，负责协调并为哥伦比亚广播公司新闻所有平台制作报道。在加入哥伦比亚广播公司新闻之前，埃米特曾在有线电视新闻网（CNN）担任制作人四年。
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更新时间：2026年8月21日 / 美国东部时间上午11:30 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
特朗普总统本周威胁称，将对伊朗发动“史无前例”规模的经济战争，美国财政部长斯科特·贝森特则誓言将以“史上最严厉的制裁”“击垮”这个伊斯兰共和国政权。
但针对伊朗的强化经济行动能否奏效，可能在很大程度上取决于美国在波斯湾的亲密盟友——阿拉伯联合酋长国。
作为中东领先金融中心的阿联酋城市迪拜，长期以来以不透明经济活动枢纽的形象著称。对伊朗而言，这座城市尤为重要，它为伊朗规避国际制裁、通过对华石油销售获取关键资金提供了渠道。
“伊朗约80%的外汇交易都在迪拜完成。因此迪拜一直是伊朗获取外汇的主要来源，”前美国财政部官员米亚德·马莱基周五对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示。
“如今伊朗经济的运作模式是，向中国出售石油，再用卖油所得资金支付从中国的进口商品费用，同时还会将部分资金通过汇兑公司从中国转移至阿联酋等司法管辖区，”他说道。
马莱基表示，他认为“阿联酋将在切断伊朗政权获取外汇渠道以及获取其储备资产方面发挥关键作用——也就是伊朗通过对华石油销售获得、存放在不同银行的资金”。
他告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，如果美国的新制裁真的要加大伊朗经济的压力，那么阿联酋将成为打击伊朗隐秘银行交易的关键参与方。
美国盯上空壳公司
美国财政部近期盯上了多家与阿联酋有关联的空壳公司。特朗普政府称，这些空壳公司为伊朗政权充当影子银行体系。
被列为目标的公司包括总部位于迪拜的HMS贸易有限责任公司（HMS Trading FZE），美国财政部在本月早些时候的一份声明中表示，该公司“在帮助伊朗政权收回其海外石油销售收入方面发挥着关键作用，协助了伊朗一些最知名的石油出口商”。
在8月7日发给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的声明中，美国财政部还指出，与伊朗 powerful 伊斯兰革命卫队有关联的伊朗夏赫尔银行（Shahr Bank）严重依赖两家迪拜汇兑公司进行洗钱活动。
美国财政部表示，美国公民被禁止与8月7日声明中提及的所有迪拜公司开展业务，并将对明知故犯与迪拜空壳公司开展业务的外国银行实施次级制裁。
一名特朗普政府官员周五对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻称，“严厉的制裁”和美国对伊朗的海上封锁已经重创该国经济，使其“彻底破产”。
“总统在未来几周和几个月内可以动用更多制裁手段，”该官员说道。
阿联酋称交易“已暂停，另行通知”
阿联酋已表示将采取行动制裁伊朗。阿联酋外交部发言人阿弗拉·阿尔·哈梅利本周在社交媒体帖子中宣布，“所有与伊朗的贸易、商业往来和金融交易均已暂停，另行通知”。
“阿联酋将坚定致力于维护国际金融体系的完整性，”阿尔·哈梅利说道。
近期伊朗发动的一系列新袭击可能是这个海湾国家宣布这一决定的推动因素。
阿联酋官员表示，就在宣布切断经济联系前不久，伊朗向阿联酋发射了两枚弹道导弹，触发了该国数周以来首次防空警报，不过当局称导弹最终落入海中。
据路透社援引阿联酋国家通讯社报道，阿联酋官员此前曾表示，伊朗于周六袭击了一艘阿布扎比国家石油公司的油轮，当时该油轮正在霍尔木兹海峡航行。
“我认为阿联酋和其他一些海湾国家此前遭受了不少打击，也感受到了伊朗升级局势、封锁霍尔木兹海峡所带来的经济影响，但它们当时只是坐视美国政府如何与伊朗政权达成协议或交易，以结束敌对状态，”马莱基说道。
“我认为阿联酋现在意识到它们不能再坐视不管，经济无法继续承受当前的局势……因此，我认为阿联酋目前正变得更加主动。”
Why Dubai may be vital to the Trump administration’s economic war on Iran
2026-08-21T11:27:00-0400 / CBS News
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Updated on: August 21, 2026 / 11:30 AM EDT / CBS News
President Trump threatened this week to wield an “unprecedented” level of economic warfare against Iran, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vowed to “collapse” the Islamic Republic regime with the “toughest sanctions in history.”
But the effectiveness of a bolstered economic campaign against Iran may rest largely on one close U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf, the United Arab Emirates.
The Emirati city of Dubai, the Middle East’s leading financial center, has long had a reputation as a hub for opaque economic activity. For Iran in particular, the city has offered ways to skirt international sanctions and gain access to vital funds from its sale of oil to countries like China.
“About 80% of Iran’s foreign currency exchange is done in Dubai. So Dubai has served as a major source for Iran’s foreign currency,” Miad Maleki, a former U.S. Treasury official, told CBS News on Friday.
“Iran’s economy today runs based on this kind of scheme of selling oil to China and then either using the funds that are generated from sales of oil to China to pay for imports from China, but also moving some of those funds outside China to jurisdictions like UAE through exchange houses,” he said.
Maleki said he believes “the UAE is going to be very instrumental in cutting off the regime’s access to procuring foreign currencies, but also getting access to its reserves — so funds that it has generated from oil sales to China and are sitting in different banks.”
He told CBS News that if new U.S. sanctions are really going to increase the pain for Iran’s economy, the UAE will be a vital actor in helping to crack down on Iran’s shadowy banking transactions.
U.S. targets shell companies
The U.S. Treasury has in recent weeks targeted a number of shell companies linked to the UAE. The Trump administration has said these shell companies act as a shadow banking system for the Iranian regime.
The targeted companies include Dubai-based HMS Trading FZE, which the Treasury said in a statement earlier this month, “plays a critical role in helping the Iranian regime retrieve revenue from its oil sales overseas, aiding some of Iran’s most prominent exporters of petroleum.”
In the Aug. 7 statement shared with CBS News, the Treasury also said Iran’s Shahr Bank, which is linked to the country’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, had relied heavily on two Dubai-based currency exchange firms to launder money.
The Treasury said U.S. nationals were barred from doing business with all of the Dubai-based companies named in the Aug. 7 statement and that it was imposing secondary sanctions on foreign banks that knowingly do business with the Dubai-based shell companies.
A Trump administration official told CBS News on Friday that “crushing sanctions” and the U.S. naval blockade on Iran had crippled the country’s economy and left it “completely broke.”
“There are many levers the president can crank harder in the weeks and months ahead,” the official said.
UAE says transactions “halted until further notice”
The UAE has said it is taking action against Iran. Afra Al Hameli, a spokesperson for the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, announced in a social media post this week that, “all trade, commercial exchanges, and financial transactions with Iran have been halted until further notice.”
“The UAE remains firmly committed to safeguarding the integrity of the international financial system,” Al Hameli said.
A recent spate of new attacks by Iran may have been a motivating factor behind the Gulf state’s announcement.
Emirati officials said not long before the announcement about the severed economic ties that Iran had launched two ballistic missiles at the UAE, triggering the country’s air defenses for the first time in weeks, though authorities said the missiles fell into the sea.
UAE officials previously said Iran attacked an Abu Dhabi National Oil Company vessel on Saturday as it transited the Strait of Hormuz, the Reuters news agency reported, citing the state Emirates News Agency.
“I think the UAE and some of these other Gulf countries were getting a lot of hits, or they were feeling the economic effect of Iran’s escalation and closure of the Strait of Hormuz. But they were kind of sitting on the side and watching how the U.S. administration might come to some kind of an agreement or deal with the regime to put an end to the hostility,” Maleki said.
“I think the Emiratis are now realizing they can’t just sit on the side, the economy can’t continue to take this current situation … So, I think the Emiratis are becoming more proactive at this point.”
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