总统声称他认为伊朗最高领袖“将率先发动攻击”
作者：亚历山德拉·科赫
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发布时间：2026年3月3日 美国东部时间晚上7:01
周二，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普表示，以色列并未敦促他对伊朗发动打击，同时坚称他认为伊朗最高领袖阿里·哈梅内伊“将率先发动攻击”。
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周二，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普坚称以色列没有施压要求他对伊朗发动联合军事打击，声称他认为伊朗最高领袖阿里·哈梅内伊“将率先发动攻击”。
在伊朗政权领导人遇袭身亡、战争爆发数日后，特朗普谈及了决定对伊朗发动美以联合攻击的缘由，解释称他“可能迫使以色列采取了行动”。
“我可能迫使他们采取了行动，”特朗普周二在白宫椭圆形办公室发表讲话时表示，“要知道，我们一直在和这些疯子谈判，我的看法是他们会先动手……如果我们不这么做，他们就会先动手。我对此坚信不疑……所以，说实在的，我可能迫使以色列采取了行动。”
尽管此前有消息来源向福克斯新闻透露，此次袭击的时间线因抓住了在德黑兰市中心打击政权领导人的机会而提前，但特朗普表示，美国和以色列已经做好了准备。
“我们产生了非常非常强大的影响，因为他们几乎所有的设施都被摧毁了，”总统说道，“现在，他们的导弹数量正在大幅减少。令人惊讶的是，他们开始攻击那些我们称之为中立的国家……我想他们很意外，我想我也是。现在那些国家都在强烈地对抗他们。”
特朗普此番言论发表在民主党人批评他未经国会批准就与以色列对伊朗发动打击之后。
政府官员表示，他们在袭击前向“八人小组”（由两党顶级国会情报领导人组成的跨党派团体）进行了通报，但国会并未就此次行动进行投票批准。
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一张显示伊朗报复性打击目标的地图。(福克斯新闻)
特朗普政府辩称，美国正面临“迫在眉睫的威胁”，因此采取了军事行动。
国务卿马尔科·卢比奥表示，美国不会“坐视伊朗的打击”，而战争部长皮特·赫格塞斯则称此次行动并非“所谓的政权更迭战争”，也不会像伊拉克战争那样成为一场旷日持久的冲突。
特朗普称，无论美国是否参与打击伊朗，民主党人都会对他的决定不满。
万斯称伊朗核谈判在特朗普发动打击前“经不住推敲”
伊朗最高领袖阿里·哈梅内伊在周六的以色列空袭中身亡。(盖蒂图片社)
“如果我没这么做，像（参议院少数党领袖查克）舒默这样的人——失败者，民主党人都是失败者——……就会说，‘哦，你本应该这么做的’。换句话说，如果我做了，他们会说这不行；如果我没做，他们又会说‘你本应该这么做’。”
他补充道，他在总统任内采取的行动“从未得到过这么多赞扬”，并指出“人们觉得必须采取行动”。
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“我们可能会有一段时间油价略高，但我相信一旦冲突结束，油价就会回落，甚至会比之前更低。”特朗普表示。
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Trump says he might have ‘forced Israel’s hand’ in Iran strike decision as critics question war powers
President claims he believed Iran’s supreme leader was ‘going to attack first’
By Alexandra Koch
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Published March 3, 2026 7:01pm EST
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Israel did not push him to launch strikes on Iran, adding he believed they were going to attack first.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday insisted Israel did not pressure him to conduct joint military strikes on Iran, claiming that he believed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “was going to attack first.”
Days after the regime leaders were killed and war erupted in Iran, Trump addressed the decision to conduct a joint U.S.-Israel attack on the country, explaining he “might have forced Israel’s hand.”
“I might have forced their hand,” Trump said from the White House Oval Office on Tuesday. “You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics, and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first. … If we didn’t do it, they were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that. … So, if anything, I might have forced Israel’s hand.”
Although sources previously told Fox News the timeline of the attack was moved up to seize an opportunity to strike regime leaders in downtown Tehran, Trump said both the U.S. and Israel were ready.
President Donald Trump takes questions from the media during a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, in Washington, D.C.(Win McNamee/Getty Images)
“We’ve had a very, very powerful impact because virtually everything they have has been knocked out,” the president said. “Now, their missile count is going way down. Amazingly, they’re hitting countries that were, let’s call them neutral … I think they were surprised. I was surprised, I think. Now those countries are all fighting against them and fighting strongly against them.”
Trump’s comments came after Democrats criticized his decision to launch strikes with Israel in Iran without congressional approval.
Administration officials said they provided congressional notification to the “Gang of Eight,” a bipartisan group of top congressional intelligence leaders, ahead of the strikes, but Congress did not hold a vote to approve them.
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A map showing the targets of Iran’s retaliatory strikes.(Fox News)
The Trump administration has argued the U.S. was facing an “imminent threat,” prompting military action.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. was not going to “sit there and absorb a blow” from Iran, while War Secretary Pete Hegseth said the operation was not a “so-called regime change war” or an open-ended conflict like that in Iraq.
Trump said he believes regardless of whether the U.S. took part in the strikes on Iran, Democrats would have been unhappy with his decision.
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday.(Getty Images)
“If I didn’t do this, guys like [Senate Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer who — losers, the Democrats [are] losers — … would say, ‘well, you should have done this.’ In other words, if I did it, it’s no good. If I didn’t do it, they would have said the opposite, ‘that you should have done this.’”
He added he has “never had more compliments” on presidential action he has taken, noting “people felt that something had to be done.”
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“We [might] have a little high [oil prices] for a little while, but as soon as this ends, those prices are going to drop, I believe lower than even before,” Trump said.
Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.