前白宫官员西奥·沃尔德称，伊朗“被软禁”的代表团将被限制在住宿地和联合国总部范围内
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特朗普与伊朗总统佩泽希齐扬将在联大上演“戏剧性”场面，华盛顿限制德黑兰代表团行动，前白宫官员发出警告。
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唐纳德·特朗普总统与伊朗总统马苏德·佩泽希齐扬本周将齐聚纽约出席联合国大会（联大），前白宫官员称这将上演一场“戏剧性”外交时刻，而在中东紧张局势升级之际，美国的限制措施将令德黑兰代表团实质上“被软禁”。
据路透社和伊朗半官方媒体迈赫尔通讯社周日报道，佩泽希齐扬定于周三在大会发表演讲，特朗普则于周二登台。
“这场安排势必制造相当戏剧性的场面，”前代理助理司法部长、白宫国内政策顾问西奥·沃尔德对福克斯新闻数字频道表示。
普京、习近平与伊朗总统佩泽希齐扬齐聚印度参加高风险金砖国家峰会，全球紧张局势升级
唐纳德·特朗普总统于2025年9月23日在纽约出席第80届联合国大会。(路透社/香农·斯台普顿)
“对伊朗方面而言，限制意味着他们接触国际媒体的机会减少，也更难借机刺激特朗普政府，”沃尔德补充道，同时指出“允许他们参与国际论坛、讨论其政权认为相关的任何议题，之后让他们回国，这是相当合理的安排。”
这场备受瞩目的聚会之际，特朗普正考虑对伊朗实施新一轮打击，双方已陷入近七个月的战争。与此同时，伊朗最高国家安全委员会秘书穆赫辛·雷扎伊表示，德黑兰为与华盛顿谈判设定了七个条件。
据路透社报道，伊朗周日还警告美国及其盟友不要发动大规模新袭击，称其掌握情报显示此类行动正在筹备中。
尽管美国本周早些时候批准了伊朗代表团的签证，包括佩泽希齐扬和外交部长阿巴斯·阿拉克奇，但国务院对伊朗代表团在曼哈顿的行动施加了严格限制。
作为1947年联合国协议规定的东道国，美国通常必须为前往联合国总部的外国代表提供入境和过境便利，包括来自敌对国家的官员。
“普通伊朗民众正遭受残酷镇压、水电短缺和飙升的通胀，而该政权的官员却想在纽约大肆购物。我们绝不会允许这种情况发生，”美国国务院发言人汤米·皮戈特在X平台上表示。
联合国监督机构抨击伊朗有望当选拥有人权话语权的委员会：“疯子掌管了疯人院”
2025年9月24日，在纽约联合国大会上，佩泽希齐扬指责美国“严重背叛”。(延娜·穆恩/路透社)
沃尔德表示，美国没有义务为伊朗代表团提供超出外交职责范围的无限制通行权。
“在这里，代表团将被限制在纽约市的住宿地和曼哈顿的联合国总部范围内，”沃尔德明确说道。
他将华盛顿的此举描述为告知代表团，他们可以参与官方讨论，但不能“去好市多或大纽约地区的汽车经销商那里购买大量微波炉或小型汽车”。
“部分限制完全是出于这样的认知：伊朗代表团来到纽约参加联大，实际上就是为了中饱私囊，大肆采购家用电器和劳力士手表，”沃尔德说，“他们不能再肆意购物了。当然也不能去大曼哈顿地区的米其林星级餐厅用餐。”
“他们还会去山姆会员店、沃尔玛和好市多。而国务院本周发布的一项具体禁令正是：禁止那些需要基本会员资格的大型零售商场与伊朗代表团进行交易，若发现他们有此类行为，请通知我们。”
库什纳称与伊朗接触前所未有的密切，德黑兰否认特朗普存在秘密渠道
2025年9月24日，在纽约联合国总部大会期间，伊朗总统马苏德·佩泽希齐扬前往会见法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙。( Ludovic Marin/法新社 via 盖蒂图片社)
尽管存在这些限制，沃尔德表示联大为华盛顿提供了“长期以来渴望的机会，能在足够多的听众面前，借助‘被软禁的伊朗代表团’，阐述本届政府针对伊朗政权采取相关行动的核心理由”。
伊朗国家媒体9月19日报道，伊朗外交部发言人伊斯梅尔·巴盖伊称，纽约对伊朗代表团“毫无吸引力”。
据迈赫尔新闻社报道，巴盖伊随后指责美国动用一切手段阻挠伊朗代表团参会，并坚称伊朗参会是合法权利，而非美国的恩惠。
沃尔德进而批评联合国接待敌视美国利益的国家代表，同时又引发安全担忧。
“对大多数美国人来说，这相当令人费解，”沃尔德说，“我们长期以来认定伊朗是敌对政权，如今更是处于交战状态，伊朗还杀害了美军官兵，为什么他们的外交官却能来到联合国，与其他窃国者或国际上的其他盟友客套寒暄？”
美国中央司令部称：两名美军官兵在伊朗对约旦的袭击中身亡
2025年9月25日，在纽约联合国大会期间，伊朗总统马苏德·佩泽希齐扬（左）与联合国秘书长安东尼奥·古特雷斯握手。(斯宾塞·普拉特/盖蒂图片社)
沃尔德还补充道，联合国一方面想“就国际气候变化问题或跨性别儿童需求对我们说教”，另一方面却乐于为公然侵犯人权的政权和违背众多国际公认协议的政权提供论坛。
在华盛顿与德黑兰敌对之际，沃尔德表示此次聚会也可能为外交提供契机。特朗普还计划与海湾阿拉伯国家合作委员会（海合会）领导人举行双边和随行会议，讨论地区安全和霍尔木兹海峡问题。
“人们希望能有机会进行真正的讨论，”沃尔德在谈及联大时表示，“包括国务院领导层在内的所有人都希望，有机会进行充分且有意义的对话，摆脱伊朗以往的一些噱头。”
“人们希望美伊双方能有机会进行闭门私下讨论，真正敲定停火协议的具体内容。”
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沃尔德对华盛顿此次峰会的立场表示信心十足。
“总统最擅长应对这类时刻。这正是他作为天生领袖大放异彩的场合，”他说，“他不会妥协或退让。对特朗普总统而言，这是一个危险时刻，但我毫不怀疑他会迎难而上。”
艾玛·巴塞是福克斯新闻数字频道突发新闻撰稿人。加入福克斯之前，她曾在《每日电讯报》美国夜班团队工作，涉及外交、政治、新闻、体育和文化等多个部门。
Trump, Iranian president converge on NYC for ‘dramatic’ UN showdown as Tehran faces tight restrictions
Former White House official Theo Wold says Iran’s ‘captive’ delegation will be confined to accommodations and UN headquarters
September 20, 2026 4:30pm EDT / Fox News
Trump, Iran’s Pezeshkian set for ‘dramatic’ UNGA as Washington restricts Tehran’s delegation, former White House official warns.
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President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian are set to converge on New York City for the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) this week, setting up what former White House officials describe as a “dramatic” diplomatic moment, with Tehran’s delegation effectively “captive” under U.S. restrictions amid heightened Middle East tensions.
Pezeshkian, for one, is scheduled to address the assembly on Wednesday, Reuters and Iran’s semi-official news agency, Mehr, reported Sunday, with Trump at the rostrum on Tuesday.
“The choreography here is going to make for a fairly dramatic moment,” Theo Wold, former acting assistant attorney general and White House domestic policy advisor, told Fox News Digital.
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President Donald Trump addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York, Sept. 23, 2025.(Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)
“For the Iranians, the limitation is going to be that there’s going to be less access to the international press and less ability for them to essentially poke the Trump administration in the eye,” Wold added before noting that it is “pretty sensible to allow them to participate in the international forum and to discuss whatever issues they think are pertinent to their regime and then tell them to go home.”
The high-profile gathering also comes as Trump weighs renewed strikes on Iran amid the almost seven-month war. Tehran, meanwhile, has set seven conditions for talks with Washington, according to Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei.
Iran also warned on Sunday against any big new attack by the United States and its allies, saying it had information such a move was being prepared, Reuters reported.
While the U.S. approved visas for Iran’s delegation earlier this week, including Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, the State Department has placed strict limits on Iranian movements while in Manhattan.
As the host country under a 1947 U.N. agreement, the United States generally must facilitate the entry and transit of foreign representatives traveling to U.N. headquarters, including officials from adversarial nations.
“While ordinary Iranians endure brutal repression, water and electricity shortages, and soaring inflation, the regime’s officials want to go on shopping sprees in New York. Not on our watch,” U.S. State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said on X.
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Pezeshkian accused the U.S. of a “grave betrayal” at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 24, 2025, in New York City.(Jeenah Moon/Reuters)
For Washington, Wold said the U.S. is not obligated to give them unrestricted access beyond diplomatic responsibilities.
“Here, the delegation will be restricted to their accommodation in New York City and the U.N. headquarters there in Manhattan,” Wold clarified.
He characterized the move by Washington as a way of telling the delegation it could participate in official discussions but not “go and buy a bunch of microwaves or a small car at Costco or a dealership in the greater New York area.”
“Some of the restrictions fully recognize that when Iran comes to New York for UNGA, really it’s about them lining their pockets and going on shopping sprees to get household appliances and Rolex watches,” Wold said. “They’re not going to be going on shopping sprees. They’re certainly not going to be hitting up Michelin-starred restaurants in greater Manhattan.
“They also go to Sam’s Club and Walmart and Costco. And that was one of the specific prohibitions issued by the State Department this week: to contact those big-box retailers that require a basic membership and say, ‘You’re not to transact or do any business with Iranians when they arrive, and you’re to notify us when they do.’”
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Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian walks to meet with France’s President Emmanuel Macron during the General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Sept. 24, 2025.(Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
Despite the restrictions, Wold said UNGA gives Washington the opportunity it has “wanted for quite some time to have a large enough audience, and a sort of captive Iranian delegation” to make some of the essential points for why the administration pursued the actions it did against the Iranian regime.
Iranian state media also reported Sept. 19 that Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said New York held “absolutely no charm” for the Iranian delegation.
Baghaei, Mehr News Agency reported, went on to accuse the U.S. of using every tool to block the delegation’s participation, asserting that Iran’s attendance is a legal right rather than a favor.
Wold went on to criticize the U.N. for hosting state representatives hostile to American interests while raising security concerns.
“It’s going to be one of those things that’s fairly perplexing to most Americans,” Wold said. “How is it that the representatives of what we have long identified as a hostile regime, but now one that we’re actually engaged in combat operations against, one that has killed American service members, why is it that their diplomats get to come to the United Nations and exchange niceties with other kleptocrats or some of their other allies on the international scene?”
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, left, shakes hands with the U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during the General Assembly on Sept. 25, 2025, in New York City.(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Wold also added that the United Nations wants to “lecture us about international climate change or the need to trans children, but the other is happy to sort of serve as a forum for obvious violators of human rights and obvious regimes that are contrary to any number of internationally agreed-upon protocols.”
Amid the hostility between Washington and Tehran, Wold said the gathering could also provide an opening for diplomacy. Trump is also slated to hold bilateral and sideline meetings with leaders from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to discuss regional security and the Strait of Hormuz.
“There’s the hope that there’ll be an opportunity for real discussion,” Wold said of UNGA. “Everyone’s hope, especially from State Department leadership, is that there’ll be an opportunity to have a fulsome, sort of meaningful discussion with the Iranians, freed from some of the theatrics the Iranians have engaged in.
“There’s a hope that there’ll be an opportunity for closed-door private discussions between the United States and Iranians and really try to hammer out some kind of agreement about what a cessation of hostilities will look like.”
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Wold expressed confidence in Washington’s posture heading into the summit.
“The president is best equipped for these moments. This is really where he sort of shines as a natural leader,” he said. “He’s not one to bend or to break. It’s a precarious time for President Trump, but I have no doubt at all that he’ll rise to the moment.”
Emma Bussey is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital. Before joining Fox, she worked at The Telegraph with the U.S. overnight team, across desks including foreign, politics, news, sport and culture.
