2026-06-16T20:08:14.924Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
据直接参与谈判的政府官员透露，过去两周来，唐纳德·特朗普总统的国家安全团队几乎每天都开会讨论一项不断演变的结束伊朗战争的协议，其中许多人担心德黑兰不会履行协议条款。其中一名官员表示，中央情报局局长约翰·拉特克利夫和国防部长皮特·赫格斯瑟是“最悲观”的官员之一，他们认为即便伊朗同意就核问题进行谈判，也不会兑现承诺，不对其核计划作出实质性让步。但官员们称，几乎所有高级官员——包括国务卿马可·卢比奥、副总统JD·万斯以及特朗普的特使史蒂夫·威特科夫和贾里德·库什纳——都在不同阶段提出了严重的保留意见。
他们最终在特朗普的推动下达成共识：“我们希望尽快了结此事，”一位直接参与谈判的政府官员告诉CNN。大约两周前在白宫举行的一次内部会议上，他们决定争取达成一项重启霍尔木兹海峡通航的一般性协议，并勾勒出拆除伊朗核计划的广泛框架。一位参与谈判的官员表示，最终没有人反对推进此事，政府决定在为期60天的高度技术性谈判期间重新评估局势。
“团队的共识是，我们希望尽快了结此事，而达成协议是实现利益最大化、风险最小化的途径，”该官员说。“这就是我们的行事方式，我们所有人都有不同的担忧和疑问。”
另一位知情人士表示，总统的观点至关重要。
“我们结束了战争，因为唐纳德·特朗普想要结束战争，并且觉得他有足够的筹码结束战争，”该人士说。“整个政府都一致同意结束这场战争。”
官员们称，这场内部辩论和讨论已经持续了数周，拉特克利夫尤其直言不讳地评估了他认为伊朗可能存在的欺骗行为。一位消息人士表示，拉特克利夫有时会指出，美国中央情报局收集到的关于伊朗的情报，与伊朗在官方和幕后对话中向美国作出的承诺并不一致。但该消息人士补充道：“局长并未表明立场。他不发表政策立场。”
“显然他尊重万斯、威特科夫和库什纳——他们才是实际进行谈判的人。他根本不参与谈判，也不是政策制定者。他只是为这些谈判提供情报背景，”该消息人士说。
另一位美国官员表示，几乎所有人都和拉特克利夫一样对伊朗持怀疑态度。“他们撒谎就像我们呼吸一样自然，”一位美国官员说，“所以我们早有预料。”
不过这位官员表示，了解对手私下对协议的看法的情报“总是滞后的”，而且通常会显示出对方对谈判的警惕。
“他们最终会讨论各种可以避免履行协议的办法，而如果我们手段高明，就能把他们逼到别无选择，只能接受我们想要的协议的地步，”这位官员说。
这位美国官员表示，伊朗私下里“对我们说了所有正确的话”，这帮助说服政府推进谈判。
“他们是否诚实是个问题，他们国内的政治能力和回旋余地也是个问题，但我认为共识是，我们应该进入这一阶段，”这位官员说。
五角大楼发言人表示，赫格斯瑟与特朗普的目标一致。五角大楼首席发言人肖恩·帕奈尔在一份声明中告诉CNN：“当然，赫格斯瑟部长支持与伊朗的和平协议以及特朗普总统的所有目标。”
一位白宫官员在一份声明中表示：“特朗普总统会就任何问题听取所有意见——但每个人都清楚，他是最终决策者。这份谅解备忘录满足了政府长期以来明确的所有红线：确保伊朗永远无法拥有核武器，他们不能保留高浓缩铀，也不能挟持全球能源供应。特朗普总统只会同意对美国人民有利的协议，这份谅解备忘录和最终协议都将确保美国的短期和长期安全与保障。”
中央情报局拒绝置评。
在西翼内部，许多高级官员长期以来一直在推动从战争中找到脱身之计，背后的动机多种多样。
特朗普的政治团队成员主张找到脱身之计，以在11月的中期选举和总统的政治遗产之前保护处境脆弱的共和党议员。财政部长斯科特·贝森特也对战争对经济的不利影响表示担忧。据知情官员透露，能源部长克里斯·赖特对全球能源行业可能受到的影响感到担忧。
“大家普遍承认，如果战争继续下去，情况会变得更糟，”一位熟悉谈判的消息人士说。
官员们表示，白宫办公厅主任苏西·怀尔斯被内部视为主张结束战争的主要声音之一。她多次告诉白宫顾问，要更诚实地向总统说明战争的现实情况，更明确地表达他们的观点，以便他掌握所有必要信息来做出决定。
一位消息人士称，她“早就想把这件事了结了”。
威特科夫和库什纳在战争期间一直站在与中东调停者和伊朗直接谈判的最前沿，他们内部被认为对达成协议的可能性更为乐观，尽管他们也对伊朗遵守核协议条款的诚意抱有一定程度的怀疑。
“但没有一个人站出来说‘不，这是个坏主意’。每个人基本上都同意，‘是的，让我们达成这笔交易，让海峡通航，然后再过几个月看看情况如何’，”一位政府官员说。
特朗普本人也非常希望结束战争。官员们称，总统本周在七国集团峰会上对以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡发表的直言不讳的公开批评，表明他在结束战争一事上投入了多少个人精力。他们说，特朗普对他认为内塔尼亚胡试图破坏协议的做法感到极为沮丧。
这位政府官员表示，政府实际上在两周前就敲定了一份它能接受的协议的大致框架。“如果我们能开放海峡，如果我们能在核材料问题上获得一些承诺，并且确保在他们兑现所有承诺之前我们不会作出任何让步——这一基本的三部分结构在几周前就达成了一致，”这位官员说。随后他们着手让伊朗承诺遵守协议。
“我们当时专注于伊朗问题，”特朗普周二表示。“这件事很快就会成为过去式。”
目前尚未公布协议文本，政府已经遭到了一些共和党鹰派人士的批评。作为这场战争内部最直言不讳的怀疑论者之一的万斯，不得不出面向公众宣传这项协议。万斯的一位助手透露，他已经安排了一系列媒体采访来宣传他的新书。
副总统周二在“梅根·凯利秀”节目中表示，“微妙的外交考量”阻止了美国公布协议文本，因为调停者要求美国“按正确的顺序推进”。尽管他为协议条款辩护，但他也暗示，即使伊朗最终退出协议，美国也处于有利位置。
“但如果他们不遵守协议，海峡仍然是开放的，我们仍然对他们的核计划造成了巨大破坏，而且说实话，我们作为一个国家可以继续正常生活，”他说。
‘We want to get this thing over with’: How Trump officials overcame skepticism of Iran to reach an agreement
2026-06-16T20:08:14.924Z / CNN
Over the past two weeks, President Donald Trump’s national security team met nearly every day to discuss an evolving agreement to end the Iran war, with many concerned that Tehran would not hold up its end of the bargain, administration officials directly involved in the negotiations said.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were among the “most pessimistic” about whether the Iranians would honor their commitments to make substantive concessions on their nuclear program, even if they agreed to negotiate on that issue, one of the officials said. But at various points, nearly ever senior official — including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance and Trumps envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner — raised serious reservations, the officials said.
They ultimately reached Trump-driven consensus: “We want to get this thing over with,” an administration official directly involved in the talks told CNN. During an internal meeting at the White House roughly two weeks ago, they decided to press for a general agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and outline a broad framework on dismantling Iran’s nuclear program. None ultimately opposed moving forward on that, an official involved in the talks said, and the administration decided to reassess where things stand during a 60-day period for highly-technical talks.
“The consensus of the team was we want to get this thing over with, and the deal is the way to do it in a way that maximizes our upside and minimizes our downside,” the official said. “That was sort of the way that we approached it, and all of us have different concerns and different questions.”
The president’s view, another person familiar with the matter said, was key.
“We ended the war because Donald Trump wanted to end the war, and felt like he had enough to end the war,” the person said. “The entire administration is aligned on ending this.”
The internal debate and discussion had raged for weeks, and Ratcliffe, in particular, offered blunt assessments of what he viewed as Iran’s possible duplicitousness, officials said. One source said that, at times, Ratcliffe has pointed out that the intelligence the CIA has collected on Iran does not line up with the commitments Iran is making to the US, both in official and back-channel conversations. But that source added: “The director wasn’t taking a position. He doesn’t take policy positions.”
“Obviously he gives deference to Vance and Witkoff and Kushner — they’re the ones doing the actual negotiations. He’s not negotiating at all, he’s not a policymaker. He provides the intelligence backdrop to those negotiations,” the source said.
Another US official said virtually everyone shared Ratcliffe’s skepticism of Iran. “They lie like we breathe,” said one US official, “so we expect that.”
The official said, though, that intelligence of an opposing side’s private view of a deal is “always lagging” and generally indicates wariness of negotiations.
“They end up, like, talking about every way they can avoid doing the deal, and then if we’re skilled, we’re able to get them to a place where they have no choice but to do the deal we want,” the official said.
The US official said the Iranians were privately “telling us all the right things,” which helped persuade the administration to move forward.
“Whether they are being honest is a question, whether they have the political ability and maneuver in their system is a question, but I think that the consensus view was that we should proceed to this phase,” the official said.
A Pentagon spokesman said Hegseth was aligned with Trump’s goals. “Of course, Secretary Hegseth supports the Peace Deal with Iran and all of President Trump’s objectives,” chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell told CNN in a statement.
A White House official said in a statement: “President Trump listens to all opinions on any given issue — but everyone understands he is the final decisionmaker. This MOU meets all of the redlines that the administration has long articulated by ensuring that Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon, they cannot keep their highly enriched uranium, and they cannot hold the world’s energy supply hostage. The President will only agree to a good deal for the American people, and both this MOU and a final agreement will ensure the short- and long-term safety and security of the United States.”
The CIA declined to comment.
Inside the West Wing, many senior officials had long been pushing for an off-ramp from the war, motivated by a wide range of factors.
Members of Trump’s political team advocated for a way out to protect vulnerable Republicans ahead of the November midterm elections and the president’s political legacy. Treasury Scott Bessent shared concerns over the war’s detrimental impact on the economy. Energy Secretary Chris Wright was wary of the effects to the world’s energy industry, officials familiar with the matter said.
“There was broad acknowledgement that if this went on, it was going to get even worse,” one source familiar with the talks said.
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is viewed internally as a leading voice in wanting to end the war, the officials said. She has repeatedly told White House advisers to be more honest with the president about the realities of the war and more vocal in their perspectives so he has all the necessary information to make his decision, officials said.
One source said she wanted to “wrap this up for a long time.”
Witkoff and Kushner, who have been at the forefront of direct negotiations with Middle Eastern mediators and the Iranians over the course of the war, were viewed internally as more optimistic about the possibility of reaching a deal, though they also had approached Iran’s dedication to the nuclear provisions with a dose of skepticism.
“But not a single person stepped up and said no, this is a bad idea. Everybody was pretty much on board, like, ‘yeah, let’s make this deal, let’s open the straits, and then let’s see where we are in a few months,’” an administration official said.
Trump, too, very much wanted the war to end. Officials argued that the president’s very vocal and public criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the G7 summit this week shows how personally invested he has become in ending the war. Trump has been incredibly frustrated with what he views as Netanyahu acting to undermine the agreement, they said.
The administration official said the administration essentially decided two weeks ago on the broad outlines of a deal it would find palatable. “If we can open the straits, if we can get some commitments on the nuclear material, and if we can make sure that we don’t have to give anything until they give everything — that basic three-part structure was agreed upon as of a couple of weeks ago,” the official said. They then worked to get Iran to commit.
“We were focused on Iran,” Trump said Tuesday. “That’s going to be in the back, in the rearview mirror.”
No text of a deal has yet been released, and the administration already has faced criticism from some GOP hawks. It’s been Vance, one of the war’s most vocal internal skeptics, who was left to sell it to the public, with one Vance official noting he already had a series of media interviews scheduled to promote his new book.
The vice president said on the “Megyn Kelly Show” Tuesday that “delicate diplomatic” considerations were stopping the US from releasing the text of the agreement, because mediators had asked the US “to sequence this in the right way.” And while he defended its terms, he also suggested the US was in a good position even if Iran ultimately walked away.
“But if they don’t comply with the deal, the straits are still open, we’ve still done incredible damage to their nuclear program, and it’s really, you know, we can get on with our lives as a country,” he said.