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乌克兰与沙特签署防务合作协议

发布时间 / 来源：2026年3月27日 23:16 / 联合早报

3月27日，乌克兰总统泽连斯基（左）与沙特阿拉伯王储兼首相穆罕默德在吉达会晤。 （法新社）

在乌克兰总统泽连斯基访问利雅得期间，乌克兰和沙特阿拉伯签署了一项重要的防空协议，合作应对伊朗的无人机袭击。

泽连斯基星期五（3月27日）在社交媒体上说，两国国防部达成的协议“为未来的合同、技术合作和投资奠定了基础，也加强了乌克兰作为安全援助国的国际作用”。

新华社引述泽连斯基说，他在访问沙特期间会见在当地的乌克兰军事专家。他强调，当地乌克兰防空专家的主要任务是防范伊朗无人机和导弹的威胁。泽连斯基此前透露，乌已向中东地区派出201名反无人机专家。

据沙特通讯社报道，泽连斯基星期四下午到访沙特，沙特王储兼首相穆罕默德星期五凌晨在吉达与他会见。

法新社引述两名高级官员说，协议的要点在于，乌克兰将支持沙特发展目前所缺乏的所有必要防空系统，文件于星期四签署。

波斯湾国家正遭受伊朗设计的“沙赫德”（Shahed）无人机的攻击，而俄罗斯也用这种无人机袭击乌克兰。四年来，基辅一直使用廉价的无人机拦截器、电子干扰设备和防空炮来击落俄罗斯每晚袭击所用的无人机。

乌克兰说，它的反无人机防御系统是世界上最好的。乌克兰提议波斯湾国家采用乌克兰无人机拦截器替代价格昂贵的防空导弹。乌克兰说，它需要更多这种导弹来抵御俄罗斯的导弹袭击。

Suspect in Houston “Lovers’ Lane” cold case murders arrested 36 years later

Updated on: March 27, 2026 / 10:27 AM EDT / CBS News

Houston police believe they have cracked one of the Texas city’s “most haunting and infamous” cold cases.

On Aug. 23, 1990, Cheryl Henry, 22, and her boyfriend Andy Atkinson, 21, were found dead in a then-remote area known in Houston as “Lovers’ Lane.” The case, known in Houston as the “Lovers’ Lane Murders,” remained unsolved for nearly 36 years.

On Wednesday, police arrested Floyd William Parrott, now 64, in connection with the couple’s deaths. He is facing capital murder charges.

According to police, the couple was last seen the day before their deaths after a night out at Bayou Mama’s nightclub in Houston.

A security guard conducting a routine patrol in the area of Enclave Parkway saw a white Honda Civic parked that did not move over a period of time. He approached the vehicle and found an unresponsive woman nearby, police said.

A Houston police officer who responded to the scene searched a wooded area near the dead-end street and found an unclothed woman with severe injuries to her neck. Investigators said the woman was sexually assaulted and her throat was cut.

The victim was later identified as Henry using the identification found in her purse, CBS affiliate KHOU reported. A blue dress that Henry’s family told police she wore the night before was found nearby.

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Police also located an unresponsive man, later identified as Atkinson, nearby, tied to a tree with severe injuries to his neck. According to an affidavit, Atkinson’s hands were tied behind his back with a rope. Another rope was wrapped around Atkinson, the tree and running across his neck, KHOU reported.

Despite an ongoing investigation that included collecting DNA samples of potential suspects and hundreds of leads, the double murder remained unresolved for decades, police said.

That changed when Houston police received a tip in late 2025 that named Parrott as a possible suspect in the killings. While following up on the tip, a detective reviewed a 1996 report of a separate sexual-assault case in which Parrot was the suspect. The DNA collected in that case was recently uploaded to CODIS, the national Combined DNA Index System.

The system flagged that male DNA from the 1996 case matched samples collected during a sexual assault exam done on Henry during her autopsy, KHOU reported, citing an affidavit. Earlier this month, Parrott was identified as a suspect the deaths of Henry and Atkinson.

On Wednesday, Parrott was arrested in Lincoln, Nebraska.

“One of Houston’s most haunting and infamous cold cases has weighed on the Henry and Atkinson families, as well as our community for more than three decades,” Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said in a statement. “Our prosecutors, working with the HPD and FBI, have pursued this investigation with relentless and dogged determination. They have worked hundreds of leads, facing dead ends and plenty of frustration. But, they never gave up on Cheryl and Andy.”

Parrott is awaiting extradition to the Harris County jail.

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House conservatives rage against Senate DHS shutdown deal

The House Freedom Caucus wants full-year ICE and CBP funding plus voter ID requirements added to bill

By Adam Pack, Alex Miller
Fox News

Published March 27, 2026 11:42am EDT

House conservatives are ripping into a Senate-passed deal that would end the 42-day Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, citing concerns that the bill fails to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

The House Freedom Caucus said Friday it will withhold its support for the DHS funding measure until Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are given full-year appropriations. The conservative group also wants voter ID requirements added to the bill.

“We can’t believe that the Senate abdicated its responsibility this morning of not funding the child sex trafficking investigation division of ICE, that they didn’t fund the Border Patrol,” HFC chairman Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., told reporters. “The only thing we’re going to support is adding that funding into the bill, adding voter ID, sending it back to the Senate, make them come back in and do their work.”

“The bottom line is … this deal is bad for America,” Harris continued.

The House Freedom Caucus speaks at the U.S. Capitol Building on May 21, 2025.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The Senate-passed product provided funding for all of DHS minus ICE and parts of the Border Patrol, enraging some conservatives who viewed the agreement as a capitulation to Democrats.

“Republicans must also make sure this never happens again,” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital, adding that he opposed the funding deal.

The measure, however, did not include a bevy of immigration reforms demanded by Democrats — a notable win for Republicans. Scott and other Senate Republicans have teased a forthcoming budget package that would give an infusion to Trump’s immigration agenda.

The conservative opposition to the Senate’s spending agreement comes as House GOP leadership has also not committed to passing the funding measure.

“We just have the number one main objective to see that we can get the entire Department of Homeland Security properly funded,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told Fox News on Friday. “There’s a lot of threats out there.”

House Democrats, however, are indicating they will support the Senate’s DHS legislation.

“We support reopening the parts of the Department of Homeland Security that Donald Trump and Republicans recklessly shut down,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Friday. “We support paying TSA agents, and we support ending the chaos at airports.”

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, left, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025.(Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

House conservatives’ opposition complicates House GOP leadership’s path to steering the measure through the chamber.

A traditionally partisan “rule” vote teeing up the legislation for a vote on final passage would almost certainly fail if Democrats withhold their support. Meanwhile, House rules prohibit Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., from advancing the measure through a suspension vote — requiring a two-thirds majority — between Thursday and Sunday.

House conservatives are also voicing frustration that the SAVE America Act has stalled in the Senate due to bipartisan opposition from all Senate Democrats and a handful of moderate Republicans.

The Senate left Washington on Friday for the Easter recess rather than continue to debate the Trump-backed election integrity bill.

“We the House should AMEND the Senate bill, ADD VOTER ID AND FORCE A VOTE in the SENATE,” Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., wrote on social media Friday morning.

Senate Democrats notably filibustered a voter ID measure sponsored by Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, on Thursday.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during the House and Senate Democrats’ joint news conference on DHS funding negotiations in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

Conservative GOP lawmakers have also argued that because Trump took executive action to fund beleaguered Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents on Thursday, delaying the passage of a DHS funding measure would not worsen air travel disruptions.

“The president has already said he’s going to fund TSA out of funds he has,” Harris said Friday. “It’s not going to affect the airports if we don’t do this today.

特朗普二度延后打击伊朗能源设施 宽限期延长10天至4月6日 | 联合早报

蔡添成 / 2026年3月27日 23:25 / 联合早报

美国海军最新发布的照片显示，3月21日，美国海军伯克级导弹驱逐舰托马斯·胡德纳号，在某处秘密地点发射一枚战斧陆攻导弹，支援对伊朗的“史诗怒火”行动。 （路透社）

（华盛顿／德黑兰综合电）美国总统特朗普决定“应伊朗政府请求”，将攻击伊朗发电厂的期限多延长10天，并称美伊对话进展顺利。

特朗普星期四（3月26日）在社交媒体Truth Social发文称：“应伊朗政府要求，我决定将攻击伊朗发电厂的行动再推迟多10天，截至美东时间4月6日周一晚间8时整。”

特朗普接着指美伊谈判形势“进展大好”，与各大“假新闻媒体错误连篇的报道”大相径庭。

特朗普过后接受福克斯新闻台采访时透露，伊朗要求多七天，但他给了10天宽限期，“在某种意义上，我们已赢得这场战争。”

德国外长瓦德富尔星期五透露，根据他收到的信息，美伊双方正在间接谈判，为直接会谈做准备，并指双方代表很快将在巴基斯坦会面。

特朗普21日限定伊朗必须在48小时内重开霍尔木兹海峡，否则将打击伊朗发电厂。两天后，他将最后通牒推迟五天。加上这次，他已是第二次自行延后攻击期限。

特朗普的最新宣布，让油价一度回落。布伦特原油价格星期四早盘下跌，但随后上涨至接近每桶110美元，而西得克萨斯中质原油价接近每桶95美元。交易员担心伊朗战争恐怕持续到四月，霍尔木兹海峡仍然受阻，这些因素都推高了油价。

调解方指伊朗并未“请求宽限” 《华邮》称五角大楼拟增军万人

美国《华尔街日报》星期四引述调解方消息指出，伊朗并未如特朗普所说、请求美方将空袭能源设施再推迟10天；伊方也仍未对美方提出的15点停战计划作出最终答复。

此前伊朗要美国收回15点计划中的一些过分要求，否则拒绝谈判。伊方也不同意将伊朗导弹计划列入谈判，且拒绝承诺永久终止铀浓缩活动。调解方认为，美伊达成停火希望依然渺茫，因为双方都提出让对方无法接受的极端要求。

《华尔街日报》也报道，五角大楼正考虑增派1万人地面部队到中东，让特朗普在谈判时有更多军事选项。新增兵员可能包括步兵和装甲车。这还不包括已经动身前往战区的5000名海军陆战队员和陆军第82空降师的2000多名空降兵。

美伊战事仍然激烈，伊朗首都德黑兰星期五（3月27日）一处民宅被炸，救援人员废墟中救出伤者。（路透社）

特朗普星期四继续吹嘘自己的成就，他在内阁会议上称，伊朗以允许10艘油轮通过霍尔木兹海峡作为“礼物”，说明伊方认真看待谈判。他也猛烈抨击美国媒体报道他迫切期望通过外交途径结束战争，坚称是伊方渴望寻求重启谈判，自己根本不在乎能否与伊朗达成协议。

伊朗消息人士则批评特朗普所谓的“霍尔木兹海峡大礼”全是政治秀，毫无事实依据可言。伊朗媒体星期四晚报道，霍尔木兹海峡仍对美国、以色列及侵略伊朗的美国盟友关闭。

伊朗加大威胁力度 恫言将袭击“有美军入住的酒店”

伊朗军方的姿态毫无放缓迹象，反而加大威胁力度；革命卫队星期五重申，不容往返敌方港口的船只通过霍尔木兹海峡，同天已遣返三艘试闯海峡的不同国籍集装箱货船。

革命卫队也促中东各国平民远离美军驻扎地点，以免受伤；并恫言，下一轮行动目标将瞄准中东各国有美军入住的酒店，因为对伊朗来说，美军入住的酒店就等同于“美国酒店”。

如今，除了防范美军入侵，伊朗军方也征用10多岁青少年执行安全工作。伊朗革命卫队官员星期四说，军方开始征用年龄在12岁以下的少年到首都德黑兰周边的检查站站岗并执行各种任务，包括收集安全信息与巡逻。

Former Dolton, Illinois ‘super mayor’ pushes for federal troops in Chicago after father shot in neck

March 27, 2026 8:32am EDT / Fox News

Former Dolton Mayor and Thornton Township supervisor Tiffany Henyard urged Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to accept federal assistance to help clean up crime, noting in a statement that her father had become a gun violence victim.

Henyard opened her statement by calling herself “SuperMayor Tiffany A. Henyard.”

“Yes, it is true, my family has been directly affected by the senseless gun violence that continues to plague Illinois. Yesterday, my father, my hero was an innocent victim of this random and heartbreaking violence,” she noted in a statement shared on social media on Thursday.

FORMER SCANDAL-PLAGUED ILLINOIS ‘SUPER MAYOR’ EYES POLITICAL COMEBACK AS A REPUBLICAN IN GEORGIA

Then-Mayor of Dolton, Illinois, and Thornton Township Supervisor Tiffany Henyard poses for a photo at the Cinco de Mayo event in South Holland, Ill.(Kyle Mazza / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)

“At this time, I am calling on Governor JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson to seriously reconsider federal assistance from President Donald J. Trump to help address this crisis and better protect the residents of Illinois, particularly in Chicago,” she noted in the statement. “Across the country, communities that have welcomed federal support have experienced measurable reductions in crime. Cities such as Memphis, Tennessee; Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, Louisiana during the 2026 Mardi Gras period have all seen positive outcomes through collaboration efforts.”

President Donald Trump notably deployed the National Guard to all three cities as part of federal intervention geared toward crime reduction and public safety.

Henyard said the residents of Illinois “deserve to feel safe in their homes and neighborhoods,” adding that the “difference between Illinois and those other states is simple, their leadership chose collaboration, and that collaboration produces results.”

“I respectfully urge Governor Pritzker to reconsider working in partnership with President Donald J. Trump to ensure the safety and well-being of the people you were elected to serve. Once again, thank you for your prayers, your support, and your compassion. Please continue to keep my family lifted in prayer during this extremely difficult time,” she wrote.

SUPREME COURT RULES ON LEGALITY OF TRUMP NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYMENT TO ILLINOIS

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, left, stands next to Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, right, during a press conference amid reports of federal deployments to Chicago on Sept. 2, 2025, in Chicago, Ill.(KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

WLS-TV reported that Henyard’s father was wounded in a shooting that happened around 5:54 p.m. Wednesday in the 1300 block South Kedzie Avenue in North Lawndale. According to the outlet, Chicago police said a 65-year-old man was in an alley when he was shot in the neck and was taken to the hospital in serious condition.

OUSTED DEM ‘SUPER MAYOR’ CHARGES WHOPPING PRICE TAG FOR TELL-ALL BOOK WHILE DODGING LEGAL TROUBLES

Tiffany Henyard, the former “super mayor” of Dolton, Illinois, is running for a commissioner seat in Fulton County, Georgia as a Republican.(Fox 32)

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Henyard, who lost the 2025 Democratic Dolton mayoral primary, is now running for Fulton County board of commissioners District 5 in Georgia as a Republican.

Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.

Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director’s personal email, publish excerpts online

March 27, 2026 2:24 PM UTC / Reuters

WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) – Iran-linked ​hackers have publicly claimed the breach of FBI ‌Director Kash Patel’s personal inbox, publishing photographs of the director and other documents to the internet.

On their website, the hacker ​group Handala Hack Team said Patel “will now find ​his name among the list of successfully hacked ⁠victims.” A Justice Department official confirmed that Patel’s email had ​been breached and said the material published online appeared authentic.

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The ​FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The hackers did not immediately respond to messages.

Handala, which calls itself ​a group of pro-Palestinian vigilante hackers, is considered by ​Western researchers to be one of several personas used by Iranian ‌government ⁠cyberintelligence units. Handala recently claimed the hack of Michigan-based medical devices and services provider Stryker (SYK.N) on March 11, claiming to have deleted a massive trove of company ​data.

Reuters was not ​able to ⁠independently authenticate the Patel emails, but the personal Gmail address that Handala claims to have ​broken into matches the address linked to ​Patel in ⁠previous data breaches preserved by the dark web intelligence firm District 4 Labs. A sample of the material uploaded by ⁠the ​hackers and reviewed by Reuters ​appears to show a mix of personal and work correspondence dating between ​2010 and 2019.

Reporting by Raphael Satter, editing by Deepa Babington

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美以空袭伊朗西南与中部两家钢铁厂

发布时间 / 来源：2026年3月27日 23:33 / 联合早报

据伊朗媒体报道，美国和以色列空袭了伊朗两家大型钢铁厂。

法新社引述法尔斯通讯社星期五（3月27日）的报道说：“几分钟前，美国-犹太复国主义敌人对伊朗西南部胡齐斯坦钢铁厂（Khuzestan Steel）和中部伊斯法罕（Isfahan）的穆巴拉克钢铁厂（Mobarakeh Steel）发动了两次袭击。”

伊朗国家广播电视台（IRIB）也报道了此次袭击。

法尔斯通讯社写道：“救援部队已立即抵达事发现场。”

通讯社补充说，初步信息显示，穆巴拉克钢铁厂的“一座变电站和一条合金钢生产线”遭到袭击，胡齐斯坦钢铁厂的一个仓库也被击中。

新华社报道，伊朗塔斯尼姆通讯社引述伊斯法罕省副安全官萨利希说，美国和以色列战斗机对穆巴拉克钢铁厂发动空袭，导致钢铁生产综合体受损。

钢铁是一种具有重要战略意义的材料，是工业和军事生产（包括导弹、无人机和舰艇）的必需品。

Epstein survivors sue Trump administration and Google over release of personal information

March 27, 2026 / 10:02 AM EDT / CBS News

Washington — A group of survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse is suing the Trump administration and Google over the release of their personal information in troves of files made public by the Justice Department.

The survivors filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court in California on Thursday arguing that the Justice Department’s disclosure of their personally identifiable information was a violation of federal privacy law. They are seeking at least $1,000 per class member from the government and an unspecific amount of damages from Google.

In their lawsuit, the survivors said that while the Justice Department took down their information after it was published in late 2025 and earlier this year, online entities like Google continued to republish it and have refused requests to remove it.

“Survivors now face renewed trauma,” they said in their suit. “Strangers call them, email them, threaten their physical safety, and accuse them of conspiring with Epstein when they are, in reality, Epstein’s victims.”

The Justice Department published more than 3 million pages of records related to its investigation into Epstein after Congress passed and President Trump signed into law the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which required the department to disclose all of its unclassified material.

Documents were made public in several tranches in late December and through the end of January, and included videos, court records, FBI and Justice Department documents, emails, text messages and news clippings. Some of the material included mentions of prominent figures like President Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, and billionaires Elon Musk and Bill Gates.

But the files also initially contained nearly 100 survivors’ personal information, including their names, phone numbers and images. After learning of the disclosures, the Justice Department took down the documents containing that information, including one with unredacted photos of 21 survivors and most of their birthdates.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department reviewed 6 million pages in all and released roughly half of those pages. A portion of the records were withheld for various reasons, he said, including because they contain survivors’ personal information.

The survivors said in their lawsuit that while the Justice Department removed the files from its website, the department has known that the unredacted documents are still publicly available on other websites, including those maintained by Google. The government has “done nothing to demand their removal,” they said.

Public statements from Blanche, “viewed together with DOJ’s subsequent document-dump, demonstrate that the United States intentionally prioritized volume and speed of public disclosure over the safety and privacy of Epstein survivors, adopting a release now, retract later approach that made unlawful disclosures of victim (personally identifying information) not merely foreseeable, but inevitable,” the survivors said.

Epstein was investigated by state authorities in Florida in 2005. He agreed to plead guilty to two state prostitution charges and serve an 18-month prison sentence as part of a deal with federal prosecutors that saw him avoid federal prosecution.

Epstein was then indicted on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019. He died by suicide at a Manhattan correctional facility while awaiting trial.

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中国商务部长会见美国贸易代表：严正关切美国发起的301调查

发布时间 / 来源：2026年3月27日 21:20 / 联合早报

中国商务部部长王文涛星期四（3月26日）在喀麦隆雅温得出席世贸组织部长级会议期间，会见美国贸易代表格里尔。 （中国商务部官网）

（北京综合讯）中国商务部部长王文涛在喀麦隆与美国贸易代表格里尔会面，就美国发起的新贸易调查提出“严正关切”；中国同时发起反制，针对美国阻碍绿色产品贸易的做法和措施发起贸易壁垒调查。

据中国商务部官网，王文涛当地时间星期四（3月26日）在雅温得出席世贸组织部长级会议期间，与格里尔会面，“双方就中美经贸关系、多边与区域经贸合作等议题深入交换意见”。

王文涛就美国以“产能过剩”和“未禁止进口强迫劳动产品”为由，对包括中国在内的多个经济体发起301调查等表达严正关切。

美国贸易代表办公室3月上旬分别以上述两个理由，对中国等经济体发起了两起301调查。

作为回应，中国商务部星期五（27日）也就美国限制绿色产品对美出口、减缓新能源项目部署、限制绿色产品相关技术合作等措施，展开贸易壁垒调查；调查期限六个月，特殊情况可延长最多三个月。

中国商务部称，美国的做法和措施可能严重损害中国企业的贸易利益，部分措施涉嫌违反世贸组织规则等中美两国共同缔结或参加的经济贸易条约或协定。

美国总统特朗普星期三（25日）宣布，将于5月14日至15日访华，不过北京尚未正式确认。分析认为，新的贸易调查将是中美元首峰会前双方的一个潜在摩擦点，华盛顿和北京也都在为峰会争取更多谈判筹码。

【早知】美国对伊朗哈尔克岛发动袭击的风险有多大？ | 联合早报

发布时间：2026年3月27日 23:44
来源：联合早报

美国总统特朗普在宣称与伊朗启动谈判之余继续调派军事资源到中东，引发揣测美军可能计划攻占伊朗石油出口终站哈尔克岛。不过，专家对占据哈尔克岛能否让美军掌握足够优势重开霍尔木兹海峡感到质疑，且认为风险巨大。

哈尔克岛为何重要？

哈尔克岛位于波斯湾北部，距离伊朗本土约26公里，距离霍尔木兹海峡西北约483公里。

它的面积不大，却承担约90%的伊朗原油出口，被视为伊朗能源体系核心。岛上拥有深水码头，可停靠无法靠近伊朗大陆浅海的大型油轮。

数据显示，哈尔克岛储油能力约为3000万桶，目前储量约为1800万桶。

美国中央情报局1984年解密文件称，哈尔克岛上的设施是“伊朗石油体系中最关键的部分，对经济至关重要”。

美国若占领哈尔克岛，将能严重扰乱伊朗的能源贸易，给德黑兰经济带来巨大压力。

本月早些时候，以色列反对派领袖拉皮德称，摧毁哈尔克岛码头将“瘫痪伊朗经济并推翻政权”，并称以色列“必须摧毁哈尔克岛上的所有油田和能源产业”。

美军地面进攻的风险有多大？

美国两支海军陆战队远征部队预计即将抵达中东，五角大楼也计划调派数千名空降兵，以便在特朗普下令发动地面进攻时拥有更多选择。分析认为，美军在军事上具备迅速夺岛的能力，但未必能带来决定性胜利，反而可能扩大和延长冲突。

前北约盟军最高司令斯塔夫里迪斯指出，美军攻岛前必须先通过霍尔木兹海峡，过程中面临伊朗无人机、弹道导弹及水雷威胁；一旦抵达哈尔克岛附近海域，就必须在周边约160公里范围内掌握绝对制空与制海权。

他指出，一大风险是伊朗可能袭击两栖舰艇。此外，岛上数千名以石油工人为主的居民如何安置也是难题。

美国外交关系委员会前主席哈斯认为，这类行动还可能消耗大量导弹库存，并被外界解读为美国试图夺取伊朗石油资源。

美国中央司令部前司令沃特尔说，岛上可能只需800至1000名士兵驻守，但相关后勤支援同样需要保护。他认为，部队的安全将是一大问题。

斯塔夫里迪斯也质疑此类行动能给华盛顿带来多少战略筹码。“如果夺岛是为了换取霍尔木兹海峡开放，伊朗是否会因失去哈尔克岛的威胁而退缩，这一点尚不明确。他们或许会拒绝为了哈尔克岛而放弃任何东西。”

伊朗已准备应对美军攻击？

伊朗议会议长加利巴夫星期三（3月25日）说，“在某个地区国家支持下，伊朗的敌人正准备占领伊朗的一座岛屿”，但未点名具体地点。

他在社交平台发文称，所有敌方行动都在伊朗武装部队严密监控之下，一旦越界，将对相关国家关键基础设施发动不受限制的打击。他还说，伊朗正密切关注美国兵力部署的动向。

情报显示，伊朗近几周已在哈尔克岛加强部署，增加兵力和防空系统，以应对潜在的美军行动。虽然哈尔克岛原本就具备多层防御体系，近期还增设肩扛式防空导弹系统（MANPADS）。伊朗还在岛上及海岸线布设反人员和反装甲地雷。

美国是否曾攻击哈尔克岛？

美国本月已对哈尔克岛发动空袭，特朗普称已摧毁岛上军事目标，并警告可能进一步打击能源设施。白宫内部人士认为，占领哈尔克岛可重创伊朗革命卫队财政基础，甚至加速战争结束。但也有官员担心兵力投入大、政治与军事代价高。

区域国家持什么立场？

一名波斯湾国家高级官员说，地区盟友私下劝告特朗普政府不要派遣地面部队占领哈尔克岛，以免延长战争。区域国家担心，美军占领哈尔克岛将导致重大伤亡，并可能引发伊朗对波斯湾国家基础设施的报复，从而拖长冲突。