Iran says won’t allow US warships to get close as Trump ponders new attacks

Iranian officials, media and analysts sense war is closer, but signal there will be no backing down.

A billboard depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the empty hall of the United Nations, on a building in Tehran, Iran, October 13, 2026 [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]

Tehran, Iran – Iran’s armed forces say they are prepared to fire on United States warships as President Donald Trump said Washington was still deliberating new attacks or continued pressure on Iran.

Trump told supporters at a rally in Florida on Friday that the US military “may do another Epic Fury”, in reference to the extensive bombing campaign against Iran at the start of the war. He had earlier questioned whether to end the conflict quickly through huge attacks on Iran or let pressure on Tehran from a naval blockade and sanctions persist.

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But Ali Abdollahi, chief of general staff of the Iranian armed forces, asserted that the US Navy is incapable of re-entering Iran’s territorial waters or its periphery due to Iran’s ability to target any vessel in the region.

“The US president can only dream of their soldiers and military again entering the Persian Gulf. They will take this wish to the grave for good,” he said in a statement carried by state media on Saturday morning.

Abdollahi also said US rhetoric about the war pointed to a basic contradiction: US claims that Iran’s military capabilities have been mostly destroyed during the war were nullified by its refusal to bring its aircraft carriers and support vessels closer to Iranian territory.

He added that Iranian forces were determined to “drown” the US and Israel in a “quagmire” in retaliation for their surprise attack on Iran on February 28, starting an eight-month war and plunging the whole region into instability.

Vessels in and around the Strait of Hormuz continue to be attacked by Iran. Together with the increased odds of renewed war, this has driven up oil prices and sent Brent crude to its highest price since April, at about $117.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said seven tankers were attacked or hit mines overnight into Thursday. It then claimed on Friday that two supertankers struck mines. The IRGC has said its military doctrine is now more offensive, and Washington has reportedly ordered many diplomatic personnel to leave Saudi Arabia, with others set to depart other countries in the region .

The Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen also continued to exchange attacks with Saudi Arabia, hitting Riyadh again on Saturday, with the international airport in Dammam and the Shaybah oilfield targeted in recent days. Saudi forces have bombed Marib, Taiz and several other Yemeni provinces under Houthi control.

In southern Lebanon, Friday brought further reported Israeli air attacks around Nabatieh and artillery fire near Zawtar ash-Sharqiyah. Iran has linked this front to its war with the US and Israel, in the past demanding that any ceasefire with Washington also cover Lebanon .

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing an election on October 27 which comes days before the November 3 mid-term elections in the US, also ordered a lockdown of the occupied West Bank after a Palestinian attack killed two soldiers in Hebron. The Houthis have also launched attacks on Israel linked to events in Gaza and the West Bank, highlighting how wider regional peace now depends on events in multiple theatres, including Lebanon, the occupied West Bank and Gaza.

Netanyahu has reiterated his desire to overthrow the Iranian government, leading several state-linked media and analysts in Iran to claim that Tehran has activated a “dead hand” doctrine. That allegedly enables military attacks against US, Israeli and regional interests to continue from across the country’s 31 provinces if senior Iranian figures are again assassinated as at the start of the war .

The IRGC has threatened seabed internet and communication cables if Iran’s civilian infrastructure is again targeted by the US and Israel. US-based Axios on Saturday cited US intelligence claiming that Iranian authorities had “substantially increased” efforts to strike American officials in the Middle East and beyond.

Diplomacy in Istanbul

Mediated negotiations between Iran and the US are no closer to yielding results. But regional and European powers held a coordination meeting in Istanbul on Friday and announced their expectations for the future of the war.

Top diplomats from Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt met with the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy, with neither the US nor Iran participating.

“We agree that a new attack on Iran would widen the war and spread the conflict across the region,” Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said after the meeting. “Military intervention in Iran is by no means a solution. No one is endorsing it at this point.”

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said his government held Iran and the Houthis responsible for instability in the Middle East.

But the foreign ministers of the four regional countries issued a joint statement that said “Israeli occupation was the main source of instability in the region and beyond.”

US Navy sailors work on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington as it transits the Arabian Sea to support US military operations in the war with Iran on August 20, 2026 [US Navy/Handout via Reuters]

In line with resolving the US-Israel war on Iran, the four regional countries supported the Islamabad memorandum of understanding signed in June and a negotiated settlement, while demanding unrestricted passage through the Strait of Hormuz . The group said they opposed attacks on civilians and commercial vessels, and condemned Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and its Red Sea shipping interests.

The Istanbul meeting once again displayed a “gap between diplomatic claims and realities in the field”, Nour News, an outlet affiliated with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, argued in an analysis on Saturday.

It said the US and European powers – not Iran – must make concessions first. The outlet presented reopening the Strait of Hormuz as conditional on the US accepting Tehran’s demands and acknowledging responsibility for attacking Iran and Yemen.

Most Iranian newspapers on Saturday focused on signs of war, including rising oil prices.

The headline from hardline Vatan-e Emrooz reported that the price of a barrel of Brent crude rising above $117 was “evidence of disgrace for Trump”. Reformist Etemad said US and Israeli actions were signalling that the “zero hour” of another intense round of the war was approaching.

Reza Nasri, a Tehran-based foreign policy analyst with links to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that after being subject to decades of attacks, nuclear sabotage, sanctions and violated deals by the US, Iran’s strategy was now “enough is enough.

“Iran has reached its verdict. It will no longer negotiate under bombardment, honour agreements the other side treats as optional, or accept the killing of its children and the penury of its people as routine instruments of policy,” he wrote on X. “It will put an end to this cycle, and it will do so by all necessary means”.

伊朗官员、媒体和分析人士都感觉到战争迫在眉睫，但他们也表示不会退缩。

2026年10月13日，伊朗德黑兰一座建筑上，一块广告牌描绘了以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡在空荡荡的联合国大厅中的形象。[Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]

伊朗德黑兰——伊朗武装部队表示，他们已准备好向美国军舰开火。与此同时，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普表示，华盛顿仍在考虑是否对伊朗发动新的袭击或继续施压。

特朗普周五在佛罗里达州的一次集会上告诉支持者，美军“可能会再次发动史诗级的狂怒行动”，指的是战争初期对伊朗发动的大规模轰炸。此前，他曾质疑是应该通过对伊朗的大规模袭击迅速结束冲突，还是应该继续通过海上封锁和制裁对德黑兰施加压力。

黎巴嫩人对以色列的民意调查持怀疑态度，认为这将带来变革，结束对南部地区的占领（共3条，第1条）

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问题 3（共 3 个）：以色列为何在被占领的西岸地区发动新的军事行动？

但伊朗武装部队总参谋长阿里·阿卜杜拉希断言，由于伊朗有能力打击该地区的任何船只，美国海军无法重新进入伊朗领海或其周边地区。

“美国总统只能梦想着他们的士兵和军队再次进入波斯湾。他们将带着这个愿望永远死去，”他在周六上午由国家媒体发布的一份声明中说。

阿卜杜拉希还表示，美国关于这场战争的言论暴露出一个根本矛盾：美国声称伊朗的军事能力在战争中已被基本摧毁，但美国却拒绝将其航空母舰和支援舰艇靠近伊朗领土，这使其说法站不住脚。

他还补充说，伊朗军队决心让美国和以色列陷入“泥潭”，以此报复他们于2月28日对伊朗发动的突袭，这场突袭引发了长达八个月的战争，并使整个地区陷入动荡。

伊朗持续袭击霍尔木兹海峡及其周边海域的船只。加之战争再次爆发的可能性增加，这推高了油价，布伦特原油价格升至4月以来的最高点，约为每桶117美元。

伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）称，周四凌晨有七艘油轮遭到袭击或触雷。周五，该部队又声称有两艘超级油轮触雷。伊斯兰革命卫队表示，其军事理论现在更具进攻性。据报道，华盛顿已下令许多外交人员离开沙特阿拉伯，另有一些外交人员也将离开该地区其他国家。

也门胡塞武装与伊朗的盟友胡塞武装继续与沙特阿拉伯交火，周六再次袭击了利雅得，达曼国际机场和沙伊巴油田近日也遭到袭击。沙特军队轰炸了胡塞武装控制下的马里卜、塔伊兹以及其他几个也门省份。

周五，据报道，以色列在黎巴嫩南部纳巴蒂耶附近发动了进一步的空袭，并在佐塔尔沙尔基亚附近发动了炮击。伊朗已将该战线与其与美国和以色列的战争联系起来，并曾要求与华盛顿达成的任何停火协议也应涵盖黎巴嫩。

以色列总理内塔尼亚胡将于10月27日举行大选，而美国11月3日的中期选举也即将到来。此前，巴勒斯坦武装分子在希伯伦发动袭击，造成两名以色列士兵死亡。内塔尼亚胡下令封锁被占领的约旦河西岸地区。胡塞武装也对以色列发动了与加沙和约旦河西岸局势相关的袭击，这凸显了更广泛的地区和平如今取决于包括黎巴嫩、被占领的约旦河西岸和加沙在内的多个地区的局势发展。

内塔尼亚胡重申了他推翻伊朗政府的意愿，这导致伊朗一些与官方关系密切的媒体和分析人士声称，德黑兰已经启动了“死亡之手”战略。据称，如果伊朗高级官员像战争初期那样再次遭到暗杀，该战略将允许伊朗从其31个省份继续对美国、以色列和地区利益发动军事袭击。

伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队威胁称，如果伊朗的民用基础设施再次遭到美国和以色列的袭击，他们将破坏海底互联网和通信电缆。总部位于美国的Axios新闻网周六援引美国情报部门的消息称，伊朗当局已“大幅增加”袭击美国官员在中东及其他地区的行动。

伊斯坦布尔的外交

伊朗和美国之间的斡旋谈判仍未取得任何成果。但地区和欧洲大国周五在伊斯坦布尔举行协调会议，并宣布了他们对战争未来走向的预期。

土耳其、沙特阿拉伯、巴基斯坦和埃及的高级外交官与英国、法国、德国和意大利举行了会晤，美国和伊朗均未参加。

土耳其外交部长哈坎·菲丹在会后表示：“我们一致认为，对伊朗发动新的袭击将扩大战争规模，并将冲突蔓延至整个地区。军事干预伊朗绝非解决之道。目前没有任何人支持这种做法。”

德国外交部长约翰·瓦德普尔表示，德国政府认为伊朗和胡塞武装应对中东地区的不稳定负责。

但该地区四个国家的外交部长发表联合声明称，“以色列的占领是该地区乃至更广泛地区不稳定的主要根源”。

2026年8月20日，美国海军水兵在“乔治·华盛顿”号航空母舰的飞行甲板上工作，该航母正在穿越阿拉伯海，以支援美国在对伊朗的战争中的军事行动。[美国海军/路透社供图]

为了解决美以对伊朗的战争，这四个地区国家支持6月份签署的伊斯兰堡谅解备忘录和通过谈判达成的解决方案，同时要求霍尔木兹海峡的通行不受限制。该组织表示，他们反对袭击平民和商船，并谴责胡塞武装对沙特阿拉伯及其红海航运利益的袭击。

伊朗最高国家安全委员会下属媒体 Nour News 周六发表分析文章称，伊斯坦布尔会议再次暴露出“外交声明与实地现实之间的差距”。

该媒体称，首先做出让步的是美国和欧洲列强，而不是伊朗。该媒体指出，重新开放霍尔木兹海峡的前提是美国接受德黑兰的要求，并承认对袭击伊朗和也门负有责任。

周六，大多数伊朗报纸都聚焦于战争迹象，包括不断上涨的油价。

强硬派报纸《祖国之声报》（Vatan-e Emrooz）的头条新闻报道称，布伦特原油价格突破每桶117美元是“特朗普的耻辱”。改革派报纸《埃特马德报》（Etemad）则表示，美国和以色列的行动表明，新一轮激烈战争的“零点时刻”即将到来。

与伊朗外交部有联系的德黑兰外交政策分析师雷扎·纳斯里表示，在遭受美国数十年的袭击、核破坏、制裁和违约之后，伊朗现在的战略是“够了”。

“伊朗已经做出了决定。它不会再在炮火下进行谈判，不会再遵守对方视为可有可无的协议，也不会再接受杀害其儿童和使其人民陷入贫困作为例行政策手段，”他在X上写道。“它将结束这种恶性循环，并将不惜一切必要手段来实现这一目标。”