2026-04-10T16:47:25-04:00 / 福克斯新闻频道
哈德逊研究所的一份报告称，格鲁吉亚共和国向德黑兰政权靠拢，可能会损害美国在该地区的利益
作者：克里斯·马萨罗，福克斯新闻
发布于2026年4月10日美国东部时间下午4:47
随着伊朗在海湾邻国中日益孤立，近期有报道称德黑兰一直在深化与南高加索地区格鲁吉亚共和国的关系。
这个曾被视为有望加入欧盟、有望成为北约候选国的前苏联共和国，正逐步向德黑兰靠拢。
“伊朗在格鲁吉亚建立了庞大的影响力网络，其中包括因与极端主义有关联而遭美国政府制裁的实体，华盛顿方面认为这些实体是伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）的幌子，”格鲁吉亚前议会议员乔治·坎德拉基告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
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2026年3月7日，伦敦，反战联盟组织游行，呼吁结束美以与伊朗的冲突带来的敌对行动，一名反战活动人士手持伊朗国旗参与游行。（杰克·泰勒/路透社）
坎德拉基与哈德逊研究所共同撰写了近期报告《格鲁吉亚转向伊朗：德黑兰在曾坚定亲美的盟友境内快速扩张影响力》，他表示，第比利斯向伊朗靠拢不仅对格鲁吉亚不利，也损害了美国在该地区的利益。
他补充道：“格鲁吉亚民众绝大多数支持美国，恪守西方价值观，该国也被华盛顿视为美国的传统盟友。这一现状开了一个糟糕的先例，扭转这一趋势符合美国和格鲁吉亚社会的共同利益。”
尽管格鲁吉亚在外交上保持中立，但哈德逊研究所的报告详细披露了两国之间日益密切的联系，以及伊朗如何利用格鲁吉亚搭建情报网络，渗透格鲁吉亚的宗教、教育和文化机构以影响当地社会。
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据“反对核伊朗联盟”组织称，早在2007年，伊朗就在格鲁吉亚开设了穆斯塔法大学分校，该校被视为伊朗向海外传播伊斯兰共和国创始人阿亚图拉·鲁霍拉·霍梅尼意识形态的主要渠道之一。
美国财政部在2020年指出，伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队圣城旅将格鲁吉亚的穆斯塔法大学作为伊朗的国际招募网络，并充当伊斯兰共和国意识形态和安全利益的 conduit（渠道）。
美国财政部称：“穆斯塔法大学协助西方国家的不知情游客前往伊朗，圣城旅成员借机从这些游客身上收集情报。”该部门还表示，该校通过与外国大学开展学生交流活动，发展情报来源。
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伊朗利用同情其立场的格鲁吉亚人实施国际犯罪，以推进其国内议程。
尽管从未有证据将第比利斯政府与此类行为联系起来，但2022年，一名与有组织犯罪有关联的格鲁吉亚公民阿吉尔·阿斯拉诺夫 reportedly（据称）被圣城旅招募，企图暗杀阿塞拜疆一名知名犹太领袖。2025年的另一起案件中，格鲁吉亚公民波拉德·奥马罗夫在纽约联邦法院被起诉，因企图暗杀直言批评伊朗政权镇压和平抗议者的知名伊朗活动人士马西赫·阿琳贾德，最终被判处25年监禁。
2003年玫瑰革命后，格鲁吉亚曾大力推动与美国建立政治和安全合作关系，成为黑海地区安全的基石。在经历数十年苏联统治后，格鲁吉亚与美国结盟，派兵参与伊拉克和阿富汗任务，并最终于2009年与美国签署《战略伙伴关系宪章》。
2024年10月27日星期日，格鲁吉亚梦想党发布的视频截图显示，格鲁吉亚总理伊拉克利·科巴希泽在第比利斯议会选举后发表讲话。（格鲁吉亚梦想党/美联社）
2012年上台的亲俄罗斯格鲁吉亚梦想党执政期间，第比利斯与德黑兰的关系不断扩大。分析人士认为，在2024年亲西方总统萨洛梅·祖拉比什维利六年任期结束后，这一纽带进一步收紧。祖拉比什维利的继任者米哈伊尔·卡韦拉什维利由据报道由格鲁吉亚梦想党支持者主导的新选举团选出。
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据美国驻第比利斯大使馆称，2024年10月的议会选举存在违规行为，格鲁吉亚梦想党宣布获胜，随后卡韦拉什维利就职。
2026年3月10日，德黑兰一条高速公路上方的广告牌展示了1979年以来历任伊朗最高领袖：（左到右）阿亚图拉·鲁霍拉·霍梅尼（1989年卸任）、阿里·哈梅内伊（2026年卸任）以及穆杰塔巴·哈梅内伊（现任）。2026年3月9日，伊朗任命阿亚图拉·穆杰塔巴·哈梅内伊接替其父担任最高领袖，伊朗于当日纪念这一任命。（法新社 via 盖蒂图片社）
自格鲁吉亚梦想党在2024年议会选举中获胜（选举结果存争议）以来，两国高层关系稳步提升。
格鲁吉亚总理伊拉克利·科巴希泽于2024年5月赴伊朗参加伊朗总统易卜拉欣·莱希的葬礼——莱希死于直升机事故，并于7月再次赴伊朗出席现任总统马苏德·佩泽什基安的就职仪式。伊朗新闻机构报道称，两国领导人在仪式上称赞两国关系日益紧密。
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格鲁吉亚非政府组织“公民理念”的数据显示，许多格鲁吉亚企业正从伊朗进口石油和石油产品，而这正是伊朗政权及其地区战争行动的关键经济生命线。2024年，伊朗石油出口收入约为430亿美元，约占伊朗总出口收入的57%。
2025年6月15日，以色列空袭伊朗德黑兰沙兰油库后，现场燃起大火浓烟，伊朗国旗迎风飘扬。（马吉德·阿斯加里普尔/瓦纳通讯社）
据“公民理念”统计，2022年至2025年间，共有72家在格鲁吉亚注册的公司进口伊朗石油和石油产品，其中8家与执政的格鲁吉亚梦想党捐助者有关联，这在伊朗遭受西方国家严厉制裁的情况下，进一步扩大了伊朗的收入来源。
“格鲁吉亚已成为伊朗规避制裁的主要枢纽……通过石油进口的特定模式，将硬通货回流至德黑兰的战争机器和伊斯兰革命卫队，”位于第比利斯的国家安全与战略传播分析师尼古拉斯·奇哈泽告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
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奇哈泽表示，这些进口伊朗石油的格鲁吉亚企业以现金支付，能够绕过国际银行制裁。
“规模十分庞大，德黑兰利用这些计划获得的收入资助其地区行动，”奇哈泽声称。
福克斯新闻数字频道向格鲁吉亚政府发出的电话和邮件置评请求未获回复。伊朗驻联合国代表团的一名发言人拒绝就两国关系置评。
Iran regime uses former Soviet republic to dodge sanctions, fund war machine: report
2026-04-10T16:47:25-04:00 / Fox News
A Hudson Institute report says the Republic of Georgia’s turn toward the regime in Tehran could be problematic for US interests in the region
By Chris Massaro, Fox News
Published April 10, 2026 4:47pm EDT
With Iran increasingly isolated among its Gulf neighbors, recent reports say Tehran has been deepening its ties in the South Caucasus with the Republic of Georgia.
The former Soviet republic, which was until recently seen as an aspiring European Union and potential NATO member candidate, has slowly moved closer to Tehran.
“Iran has built a vast influence infrastructure in Georgia, which includes entities sanctioned by the U.S. government for links to extremism and viewed in Washington as fronts for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),” Giorgi Kandelaki, former member of the Georgian Parliament, told Fox News Digital.
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An anti-war activist holds an Iranian flag during a march organized by Stop the War Coalition, calling for an end to hostilities amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in London on March 7, 2026.(Jack Taylor/Reuters)
Kandelaki, co-author of a recent report with the Hudson Institute titled Georgia’s Iranian Turn: Tehran’s Rapid Expansion of Influence in a Once-Committed U.S. Ally, said that Tbilisi’s turn toward Iran is bad for Georgians but also bad for U.S. interests in the region.
“Georgia has an overwhelmingly pro-U.S. public opinion committed to Western values with it also being viewed as a traditional U.S. ally in Washington. This reality presents a terrible precedent and reversing this trajectory is in the interest of both the U.S. but also Georgian society,” he added.
While Georgia has remained diplomatically neutral, the Hudson report details the budding ties between the two countries and how Iran uses Georgia as a network for intelligence infrastructure, penetrating Georgia’s religious, educational and cultural institutions to impact society.
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Supporters of the ruling Georgian Dream party attend a rally in the center of Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024.(Shakh Aivazov/AP)
As far back as 2007, Iran opened the Georgian branch of Al-Mustafa University, which is considered one of Iran’s main arms for the dissemination of Islamic Republic founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s ideology abroad, according to United Against a Nuclear Iran.
The U.S. Treasury Department stated in 2020 that Iran’s IRGC-Quds Force uses Al-Mustafa University in Georgia as an international recruitment network for Iran and acts as a conduit for the Islamic Republic’s ideological and security interests.
“Al-Mustafa has facilitated unwitting tourists from Western countries to come to Iran, from whom IRGC-Qud’s Force members sought to collect intelligence,” the Treasury Department said. It also said that the university facilitated student exchanges with foreign universities to develop intelligence sources.
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A portrait of the late Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sits at the entrance to the Iranian embassy in Tbilisi on March 6, 2026.(Vano Shlamov / AFP via Getty Images)
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A report from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies estimated the university’s annual budget is $100 million and has trained tens of thousands of emissaries across the world who spread Iran’s revolutionary ideology.
Iran has utilized sympathetic Georgians to commit international crimes to advance its domestic agenda.
While no links have ever been made with the Tbilisi government, a Georgian national, Agil Aslanov, who had ties to organized crime, was reportedly recruited by the Quds Forces to assassinate a prominent Jewish leader in Azerbaijan in 2022. In another case in 2025, Georgian national Polad Omarov was indicted in federal court in New York City and sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempting to assassinate prominent Iranian activist Masih Alinejad, a vocal critic of the Islamic Republic’s use of violence against peaceful protesters.
Georgia once made significant inroads to foster political and security ties with the United States following the Rose Revolution in 2003, becoming a bedrock of regional security in the Black Sea region. After decades of Soviet rule, Georgia aligned itself with the United States, contributing to missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and eventually signed a Strategic Partnership Charter with the United States in 2009.
In this photo taken from video released by Georgian Dream Party on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze speaks after the parliamentary election in Tbilisi, Georgia.(Georgian Dream Party/AP)
Tbilisi’s ties with Tehran have been expanded under the pro-Russia Georgian Dream party that took power in 2012. That bond, according to analysts, has tightened after Georgia’s pro-Western President Salome Zourabichvili finished her six-year term in office in 2024 and was replaced by Mikheil Kavelashvili, who was chosen as her successor by a newly established electoral college reportedly dominated by Georgian Dream supporters.
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Kavelashvili’s installment followed parliamentary elections in Oct. 2024 marred by some irregularities, according to the U.S. embassy in Tbilisi, in which the Georgian Dream declared victory.
A billboard depicting Iran’s supreme leaders since 1979: (L to R) Ayatollahs Ruhollah Khomeini (until 1989), Ali Khamenei (until 2026), and Mojtaba Khamenei (incumbent) is displayed above a highway in Tehran on March 10, 2026. Iran marked the appointment of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his father as its supreme leader on March 9, 2026.(AFP via Getty Images)
Leadership ties between both countries have steadily grown since the Georgian Dream’s disputed 2024 parliamentary victory.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze visited Iran in May 2024 for the funeral of Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter accident, and again in July to attend the inauguration of Iran’s current president, Masoud Pezeshkian, where Iranian news agencies reported both leaders praised the growing relationship between the two countries.
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Many Georgian companies are also importing oil and petroleum products from Iran, a key economic lifeline for the regime and its regional war efforts, according to Georgian NGO Civic IDEA. In 2024, Iranian oil export revenue was approximately $43 billion, which accounts for roughly 57% of Iran’s total export revenue.
Iranian flags fly as fire and smoke from an Israeli attack on Sharan Oil depot rise, following Israeli strikes in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2025.(Majid Asgaripour/WANA)
According to Civic IDEA, between 2022 and 2025, 72 companies registered in Georgia imported Iranian oil and petroleum, including eight inked to donors of the ruling Georgian Dream party, boosting Iran’s revenue stream even while heavily sanctioned by Western nations.
“Georgia has become Iran’s primary sanctions-evasion hub . . . funneling hard currency back to Tehran’s war machine and the IRGC through specific schemes in oil imports,” Nicholas Chkhaidze, national security and strategic communications analyst based in Tbilisi, told Fox News Digital.
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Chkhaidze said these Georgian companies that import Iranian oil pay in cash and can bypass international banking sanctions.
“The scale is massive, as Tehran uses the revenue from these schemes to fund its regional operations,” Chkhaidze claimed.
Telephone and email requests for comment sent to the government of Georgia were not returned. A spokesman for Iran’s mission to the United Nations would not comment on the relations between the two countries.
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