2026年9月3日 美国东部时间上午9:18 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：亚当·坎克林
美国商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克于北卡罗来纳州查珀尔希尔举行的G20创新部长级会议上发言，2026年9月2日周三。
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美国商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克周四公开道歉，此前他错误声称特朗普政府对伊朗发动的战争中没有美国人死亡。
卢特尼克在CNBC的一档采访中为这场战争辩护时作出上述表态，他称：“总统处理伊朗问题的方式，没错，至今没有美军死亡。这本质上只是一场经济封锁，本届政府目前正将其范围扩大，我认为这会非常奏效。”
但实际情况是，自美国2月首次袭击伊朗以来，已有18名美军官兵阵亡，另有数百人受伤。
卢特尼克周四上午在X平台上发帖称自己“口误”，将这场持续六个月的伊朗战争与政府此前历时数小时的委内瑞拉军事行动搞混了。
“我昨日在G20创新峰会谈及人工智能时，回答了有关伊朗军事行动的问题，当时我说错了话，”他写道，“我当时脑子里想的是委内瑞拉的军事行动，那次行动中没有官兵阵亡。”
卢特尼克还向阵亡官兵的家属致歉，他写道：“我的心都碎了，对他们失去亲人的悲痛，我深表歉意。”
卢特尼克周三上午在一场关于科技与贸易问题的专访中发表了上述言论，在发布之初并未引起公众广泛关注。但总统唐纳德·特朗普周四早先发帖抢先淡化此事，他在Truth Social平台上写道：“卢特尼克部长当时脑子里想的是委内瑞拉的行动，那次行动无人阵亡！伊朗战争中有18人丧生！”
约45分钟后，卢特尼克公开道歉。
本届政府因披露和讨论伊朗战争中伤亡人员的方式饱受批评，尤其是在7月份国防部网站上公布的伤亡总数中少报了4人死亡和数十人受伤的情况之后。国防部长皮特·赫格斯此前曾批评媒体对美军阵亡的报道，他在3月的一场新闻发布会上称：“只要有几架无人机突破防线，或是发生悲剧性事件，这些就会登上头版头条。”
Lutnick apologizes for asserting that there ‘haven’t been American deaths’ from the Iran war
2026-09-03 09:18 AM ET / CNN
By Adam Cancryn
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick speaks during the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Wednesday.
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US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick publicly apologized on Thursday after falsely asserting that no Americans had died during the Trump administration’s war with Iran.
Lutnick made the claim while defending the war in an interview on CNBC, saying that “the way the president is playing Iran, right, there haven’t been American deaths. It’s really just an economic chokeout which the administration is now executing more broadly, and I think it’ll be very effective.”
In fact, 18 US service members have died since the US first attacked Iran in February. Hundreds more have been wounded.
In a Thursday morning post on X, Lutnick said he “misspoke” and had confused the six-month war in Iran with the administration’s prior hours-long invasion of Venezuela.
“While speaking yesterday at the G20 innovation summit about AI, I answered a question about the military actions in Iran, I misspoke,” he wrote. “I was thinking about the Venezuelan military operation where no service members died.”
Lutnick also addressed the families of the killed service members, writing that “my heart breaks and I am so very sorry for their loss.”
The remarks, which Lutnick made Wednesday morning as part of a broader interview on technology and trade issues, had only gained limited public attention in the immediate aftermath. But President Donald Trump sought to preemptively downplay the matter early Thursday, writing in a Truth Social post that “Sec. Lutnick had Venezuela on his mind when nobody was killed. 18 people were killed in Iran!”
Lutnick issued his public apology roughly 45 minutes later.
The administration has faced scrutiny over how it has disclosed and discussed those killed and injured in the Iran war, particularly after four deaths and dozens of injuries disappeared from the totals listed on a Defense Department website in July. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has previously been critical of media coverage about service member deaths, saying at a March news conference that, “When a few drones get through or tragic things happen, it’s front-page news.”
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