2026-08-18T20:39:41.280Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/politics/iran-war-trump-halt-talks
数周以来，唐纳德·特朗普总统一直试图促成与伊朗的积极事态发展，但收效甚微。
周二，他似乎采取了新的策略。据一名美国官员透露，特朗普已告知政府高级特使停止与伊朗的对话。此外，据一位知情人士透露，白宫官员近期向政治盟友传达了战略转变信号——从“尽快重击伊朗”转向“长期施压绞杀”。
此前，特朗普自6月签署的停火协议破裂后曾多次宣称，谈判进展顺利，新协议即将达成。而此次他却宣布，目前根本没有任何外交活动在进行中。
“伊朗伊斯兰共和国没有任何正在进行或已安排的对话或会谈，”他在社交媒体上写道，“海军封锁仍在全面实施。霍尔木兹海峡保持开放和通行。所有水雷已被清除或引爆。感谢您对此事的关注！”
事实上，霍尔木兹海峡的通航量依然稀少，途经这条关键水道的船只仍不断遭到伊朗发射的弹药袭击。
然而，在重新开放该航道的尝试陷入僵局，且针对这场不受欢迎的战争给美军造成损失的质疑声日益高涨之际，特朗普正发出信号，表示准备让这场冲突降温。
官员们周二透露，特朗普指示包括副总统J·D·万斯以及特使史蒂夫·威科夫和贾里德·库什纳在内的谈判团队不要与德黑兰接触，这一决定是在与伊朗进行了一些“积极讨论”之后做出的。
但官员们表示，特朗普仍对伊朗不愿屈服于他的要求感到不满。他希望等到伊朗领导人明确表示愿意接受他所寻求的协议后，再恢复接触。
就在特朗普发布社交媒体帖子的前一天，库什纳在中东之行中对谈判做出了更为乐观的评估。他在接受福克斯新闻采访时表示，美伊之间的对话“可能比以往任何时候都更深入”，并补充说美国团队正在与伊朗政权内部的多位人士进行接触。
“他们的接触方式非常有力，这相当积极，”他说道，并补充道：“我们正在进行非常积极且活跃的对话。”
伊朗官员多次否认该国正在与美国进行直接会谈。特朗普此前曾对这种否认表示愤怒，称伊朗在耍花招，并称伊朗官员渴望在私下会谈中达成协议。
据知情人士透露，在幕后，特朗普对伊朗试图与阿曼就霍尔木兹海峡通航管理达成的协议框架越来越不满。本周他抨击阿曼，威胁要对这个几十年来一直是美国战略伙伴的海湾国家发动空袭。
“我认为他们表现得不太好，但我们对付他们会非常轻松——就像我们对付其他国家一样，”他周一在椭圆形办公室对记者说道。
伊朗和阿曼都拥有霍尔木兹海峡沿岸的海岸线，据地区官员描述，该协议将让两国分别控制波斯湾进出航道。
白宫内部有人担忧，这项尚未最终敲定的计划可能会强化伊朗对该航道的控制。一些官员认为，在谈判中阿曼对伊朗的态度比对美国更为友好，而非扮演中立伙伴的角色。
特朗普和美国高级官员反对的提案包括：对途经海峡的船只收取费用。特朗普坚持认为绝不允许收取任何通行费或其他款项，但流传的部分协议版本中包含了与环境保护或安全相关的收费条款。
这并非特朗普设想的海峡运作方式。他希望达成一项协议，让航道完全恢复到战前状态，即这条国际水道恢复不受限制的通航。他的政府多次表示，允许任何国家控制霍尔木兹海峡将开创危险的先例。
尽管特朗普本周表示，他的首要目标仍然是阻止伊朗获得核武器，但恢复海峡通航已成为这场战争的核心挑战。
美国官员称，美国预计很快将对伊朗实施严厉的新制裁，最早可能就在本周。包括国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯在内的军事官员表示，美国在该地区的部队已准备好永久实施对伊朗港口的封锁。
特朗普及其团队相信，对伊朗施加的经济压力最终将促使该政权接受他结束战争的条件。但伊朗官员同样认为特朗普正面临国内政治压力要求撤军，双方陷入了僵持局面。
军事压力也在推动特朗普谈判结束战争。美国在该地区长期部署军事资产——包括亚伯拉罕·林肯号航空母舰——因其对舰艇和船员造成的损耗而受到严格审查。特朗普也承认，开战六个月后，最先进弹药的库存并未达到他的预期。
但到目前为止，他仍拒绝了共和党越来越多的要求，即找到战争的“退路”，并坚称他不觉得有时间压力。
周二，特朗普在另一条社交媒体动态中发布了一张标有“美国领土”字样的海峡地图——这一声明并未暗示美国军队很快会撤军。
Trump tries a new approach in Iran war: Disengage
2026-08-18T20:39:41.280Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/politics/iran-war-trump-halt-talks
For weeks, President Donald Trump has tried willing positive developments with Iran into existence, without much success.
On Tuesday, he seemed to adopt a new approach. Trump told top administration envoys to halt their conversations with Iran, according to a US official. Additionally, White House officials have recently communicated to political allies that they are shifting their strategy — going from “hammer Iran ASAP” to “strangle them” over time, according to a source familiar with the matter.
And instead of claiming talks were proceeding well, and that a new deal was just around the corner — as he’s asserted repeatedly since the ceasefire signed in June fell apart — Trump announced there was no diplomacy underway whatsoever.
“There are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he wrote on social media. “The Naval Blockade remains in full force and effect. The Hormuz Strait is open and operating. All water mines have been removed or detonated. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
In fact, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains at a trickle, and ships transiting the key waterway continue to come under fire from Iranian projectiles.
Yet frustrated at deadlocked attempts to reopen the channel and facing intensifying questions about the toll the unpopular war has taken on the US military, Trump is signaling he is ready to put the conflict at arm’s length.
Officials said Tuesday that Trump’s instruction to his negotiating team — which includes Vice President JD Vance and envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner — to not engage with Tehran came after some “positive discussions” with the country.
But Trump has still been unsatisfied with Tehran’s unwillingness to bend to his demands, the officials said. He wants to wait until the country’s leaders signal fresh willingness to strike the deal he is seeking before reengaging.
A day before Trump’s social media post, Kushner offered a more optimistic assessment of the negotiations during a trip to the Middle East. He said in an interview on Fox News that conversations between the US and Iran were “probably more robust” than ever, adding the American team was talking with various figures within the regime.
“They’re engaging in a very strong way and that’s quite positive,” he said, adding: “We are having very positive and active conversations.”
Iran officials have repeatedly declared it untrue that they are engaging in direct talks with the United States. Trump had previously vented anger at the denials, saying Iran was playing games and that officials were eager to strike a deal in more private conversations.
And behind the scenes, Trump has grown displeased at the emerging contours of the arrangement Iran is attempting to strike with Oman on managing traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, according to people familiar with the matter. He lashed out at Oman this week, threatening to hit the Gulf nation with bombs even though it has acted as a strategic partner to the US for decades.
“I don’t think they behaved very well, but we’d handle them very easily — just like we do others,” he told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.
Both Iran and Oman have coastlines along the strait, and the deal as described by regional officials would denote control to each country on traffic going in and coming out of the Persian Gulf.
There are concerns inside the White House that the plan, which hasn’t been finalized, could harden Iran’s control over the waterway. Some officials believe Oman has been more favorable to Iran than to the US in the negotiations, rather than acting as a neutral partner.
Among the proposals that Trump and senior US officials oppose: the collection of fees on vessels looking to transit the strait. Trump has insisted no tolls or other payments can be allowed, but some versions of the deal that have circulated include charges related to environmental protection or security.
That is not how Trump envisions the channel working. He wants a deal that would fully restore the passageway to its prewar status, which saw unrestricted traffic flowing through the international waterway. His administration has repeatedly said allowing any nation to assert control over the strait would set a dangerous precedent.
Restoring traffic in the strait has become the central challenge of the war, even though Trump claimed this week his chief goal is still to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
The US is expected to soon slap crushing new sanctions on Iran, perhaps as early as this week, US officials have said. Military officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, have said American forces in the region are prepared to enforce the US blockade of Iranian ports into perpetuity.
Trump and his team believe the economic pressure on Iran will eventually cause the regime to accept his conditions for ending the war. But Iranian officials similarly view Trump as under political pressure to withdraw, leading to the standoff.
Military pressure has also built on Trump to negotiate an exit to the war. Historically long deployments of US military assets in the region — including of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier — have drawn scrutiny for the toll they’ve taken on the ships and the sailors aboard them. And Trump has acknowledged that stockpiles of the most advanced munitions are not where he’d like them to be after six months of war.
But, so far, he has resisted increasing calls from Republicans to find an off-ramp to the war, insisting he feels no time crunch.
And in another social media update Tuesday, Trump posted a map of the strait underneath the words “US Territory” — a proclamation that didn’t suggest an American military withdrawal anytime soon.