应对能源危机 印尼实施节能越南调高油价

发布时间 / 来源：2026年3月20日 19:44 / 联合早报

自2月底中东冲突爆发以来，越南的95号汽油和柴油价格分别上涨超过50%和70%。图为越南头顿市附近海域的白虎油井钻井平台。 （路透社）

（雅加达 / 河内综合讯）中东冲突引发的能源危机蔓延到东南亚，各国急于寻求对策；印度尼西亚颁布多项措施节能，越南则调高燃油价格，并推行使用新燃料。

印尼总统普拉博沃星期四（3月19日）在会议上听取了各部长关于保障能源供应措施的报告。内阁秘书泰迪说：“总统讨论了节能战略步骤，以维护国内能源稳定。”

总统府说，这些措施旨在维持可持续的能源供应，进而稳定经济；跨部门协调将确保政策有效且具聚焦，同时避免扰乱公共经济活动。

印尼政府随之在星期四晚间宣布，由于中东冲突导致能源价格飙升，将安排每周一天居家办公。经济事务统筹部长艾尔朗加说：“这有助于将汽油消耗量大幅缩减至平日的五分之一。”

这项政策虽只面向公务员，也鼓励私营企业采纳。政策的具体细节仍在敲定，将在近期生效。

财政部长普尔巴亚星期四承诺，政府会承担油价上涨带来的冲击，不转嫁给消费者。“燃油价格不会上涨，压力将由国家预算承担。如果我们像其他国家那样允许油价上涨，只会让人们陷入恐慌。”

普尔巴亚说，目前的油价已计入全年补贴预算，仍有充裕的财政空间。他也强调，尽管能源成本上涨，政府仍将财政赤字控制在国内生产总值3%的法定上限之内。

东南亚多国油价高涨 越南推行新汽油

越南政府星期四午夜前宣布上调汽油价格。其中，95号汽油价格较周末上调20%至每升3万零690越南盾（约1.5新元），柴油价格上涨近34%至每升3万3420越南盾。

自2月底冲突爆发以来，越南的95号汽油和柴油价格已分别涨了逾50%和70%。

贸易部发表声明称，此次涨价，是中东冲突、伊朗控制霍尔木兹海峡以及俄乌战争等因素共同冲击的结果。

越南政府说，总理范明政已与卡塔尔、科威特、阿尔及利亚和日本等国通过电话，请求提供燃油支持。

范明政星期四也签署政府指令，越南将从下个月开始使用E10汽油，比原计划的6月1日提前了一个月。E10汽油是一种含有10%生物乙醇的混合汽油。

指令还敦促有关部门出台激励措施，鼓励生产和使用电动车，并呼吁扩大可再生能源的开发和利用。

与此同时，在缅甸，汽油价格一夜间上涨约30%。泰国政府则在星期三（18日）宣布提高柴油价格，油价随之飙升。

消息：特朗普拟占领哈尔克岛 迫使伊朗开放霍尔木兹海峡

发布时间 / 来源：2026年3月20日 19:47 / 联合早报

3月17日，欧洲航天局（ESA）提供、由哥白尼哨兵2号卫星拍摄的图像显示，建有伊朗主要原油出口码头的哈尔克岛。 （法新社）

新闻网站Axios引述四名知情人士的消息报道，特朗普政府正在考虑占领或封锁伊朗哈尔克岛（Kharg Island），以迫使伊朗重新开放霍尔木兹海峡（Strait of Hormuz）。

此前，伊朗伊斯兰共和国通讯社星期五（3月20日）报道，伊朗议会国家安全与外交政策委员会发言人雷扎伊说，哈尔克岛安全形势稳定，伊朗石油出口仍在持续进行。

新华社引述雷扎伊说，伊朗目前没有与美国进行谈判的计划，有关停火或谈判的说法均为美国为控制能源价格而散布的虚假消息。

雷扎伊说，伊朗近期行动已取得显著成果，对敌人造成了“更具决定性的”沉重打击。若任何国家以任何形式允许伊朗的敌对方使用其领土或军事基地，将视为直接参战方，成为伊朗的打击目标。

Thune accuses critics of ‘creating false expectations’ amid backlash over stalled SAVE America Act

March 20, 2026 5:00am EDT / Fox News

FIRST ON FOX: Senate Republicans launched a test of Senate Democrats’ resolve against voter ID legislation, and while it may not look like what many wanted, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., argued it was the only path forward.

Thune has been pressured by President Donald Trump, a cohort in the Senate GOP, and a fervent online network of conservatives demanding that he activate the talking filibuster to pass the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act.

But it’s a floor tactic that Thune argued has never proven successful in passing legislation.

[REPUBLICANS SIGNAL NO RETREAT ON SAVE ACT AS MARATHON SENATE DEBATE KICKS OFF]

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., pushed back against the external pressure for him and Republicans to launch the talking filibuster, and told Fox News Digital, “Nobody really knows how this ends, and the people who are out there saying they do, don’t.”(Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

“Nobody really knows how this ends, and the people who are out there saying they do, don’t,” Thune told Fox News Digital in an interview. “Because it’s never been done, or at least hasn’t been done in modern history.”

Proponents of the talking filibuster view it as a method to blow through the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold and ensure that the SAVE America Act is passed. But it comes at the steep price of the upper chamber’s most valuable currency — floor time — which, during an ongoing shutdown, is not something lawmakers would want to give up.

Thune added that Senate Democrats have also considered the move in the past under former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and noted that they “opted against it in both cases because I think they felt like the price that we would make them pay wasn’t worth whatever it was they were trying to get done.”

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President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in the Oval Office of the White House, on St. Patrick’s Day, Tuesday, March 17, 2026, in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

“If I saw a pathway, even if it was a small-percentage pathway of getting an outcome, I’d be more inclined to do it,” Thune said. “But we looked at it, ran all the contingencies, gamed it out, mapped it out, what it would look like on the floor, did the research, studied the history, and couldn’t find a single example in modern Senate history where a talking filibuster actually led to a piece of legislation passing.”

Instead, Thune and Senate Republicans are doing a version of the talking filibuster that does allow for unlimited debate but prevents an unlimited number of amendments from Senate Democrats that would drastically alter the bill and that Republicans know they don’t have the votes to kill.

It’s not a move he made on his own, either. The nature of Thune’s leadership style, which helped secure him the top spot in the Senate GOP, is to avoid unilateral decision-making and instead allow Republicans to come to an agreement on a plan.

[SENATE GOP EYES BLAME GAME AS TRUMP-BACKED SAVE ACT HEADS FOR DEFEAT]

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, was determined to make sure the Senate continued to debate his voter ID bill until it “damn well passes.”(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Still, there are critics who are unhappy with the plan Republicans landed on given that it doesn’t lower the threshold to pass the bill. But the pressure Thune felt from all sides wasn’t enough to make him cave and pull the trigger on the talking filibuster.

“I think there’s a sort of a leadership guru who, one of his main points is, the first responsibility of a leader is to define reality, and so I try and figure out what’s achievable,” he said. “And there are a lot of folks out there who are over-promising and creating false expectations about what we can get done here.”

Republicans’ plan has seen the Senate engage in three straight days of debate on the SAVE America Act in a bid to force Senate Democrats to argue against the legislation. When that debate comes to an end is still in the air.

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Some, like Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who is the lead sponsor of the bill, want the Senate to spend time on the bill for “as long as it takes” to wear down Senate Democrats.

“And if we’re not there yet, we need to continue debating it,” Lee said.

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

New VA-DOJ agreement on guardianship could put homeless veterans at risk, advocates warn

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PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2026, 5:00 AM ET

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Veterans’ advocates are raising concerns that a new agreement between the departments of Veterans Affairs and Justice could take away veterans’ autonomy over their health care decisions and deter them from seeking care, particularly those facing homelessness.

The memorandum, announced by the departments last week, would authorize VA attorneys to “initiate and participate in state court guardianship or conservatorship proceedings” while serving as special assistant US attorneys appointed by the Justice Department.

Guardianship “doesn’t take away your physical autonomy, but it can take away your right to vote, your right to marry, your right to engage in some financial transactions,” Jennifer Mathis, deputy director at Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, told CNN. “That’s a big deal. We shouldn’t take that lightly.”

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The VA said in a statement the agency serves “hundreds of Veterans” who cannot make their own health care decisions and don’t have family or legal representation,including those experiencing homelessness.

Under the memorandum, VA attorneys will be able to initiate guardianship proceedings “in cases where a legal decision-maker is required for post-acute transitions of care.” If the court approves, a third-party, “who is not a VA employee” will be appointed as a guardian, VA press secretary Peter Kasperowicz told CNN.

When a court grants guardianship, it allows a family member or someone appointed by the court to make some or all decisions for another individual. A Department of Justice webpage says that “guardianship results in the removal of an individual’s legal rights and restricts their rights to make their own decisions. For that reason, state laws recognize that it should be a last resort.”

Mathis told CNN she is concerned the memorandum “is that this may be a way to discharge veterans (experiencing homelessness) who are sitting in hospitals to settings that they might not choose.”

“If people are sitting in a VA hospital and not being discharged, it’s very likely because there aren’t enough services or housing, not because they don’t have guardianship,” Mathis said.

Asked about advocates’ concerns that the memorandum particularly impacts veterans facing homelessness and puts them at risk, Kasperowicz said, “VA’s announcement is not aimed at homeless Veterans. It is aimed at roughly 700 Veterans across the country who are currently in VA facilities and are unable to make their own health care decisions and have no family or legal representation to help them.”

“These Veterans remain in VA hospitals, which may not be the most appropriate setting for them, with no way of transitioning to more appropriate care,” he added. “Some are homeless or at risk of homelessness, but the key characteristic is not homelessness, it is the lack of capacity to make their own medical decisions.”

Thomas O’Toole, VA’s acting assistant undersecretary for health for clinical services, relayed a similar message to the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on Wednesday. He told lawmakers, “It is not intended as a homeless initiative.”

Mathis told CNN it is an unusual move to have VA’s lawyers petition for guardianship. However, Kasperowicz pushed back on the claim and said it’s similar to “health care providers and hospitals” filing guardianship petitions, stressing that the lawyers would have to follow the same rules as other petitioners.

Kathryn Monet, the CEO of National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, said with the memorandum, the departments are “trying to make it easier to place veterans in the conservator- or guardian-type situation.”

She told CNN she worries that “there’s a lot of opportunity for misuse,” pointing to the Trump administration’s actions on homelessness, which she described as being “focused on forced treatment and penalizing people for being outside.”

Last summer, for example, President Donald Trump signed an executive order making it easier for local jurisdictions to remove homeless people from the streets. Kasperowicz told CNN the memorandum “has nothing to do with” the president’s executive order and pushed back against concerns of misuse.

Nearly 33,000 veterans facing homelessness

According to a Department of Housing and Urban Development report published in 2024, there are nearly 33,000 veterans facing homelessness and nearly 14,000 of them are unsheltered. According to National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, around 5% of adults experiencing homeless are veterans.

Monet told CNN that stigmas around homelessness may make it easier for doctors to mistake veterans’ choices and behaviors as a sign of mental illness rather than in response to the conditions of poverty.

Homeless veterans are housed in 30 tents on a sidewalk along a busy San Vicente Boulevard outside the Veteran’s Administration campus in West Los Angeles as viewed on April 22, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. During a 2020 count it was reported that there are an estimated 4,000 veterans living on the streets of Los Angeles.

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Another risk, she added, is once placed in conservatorship, a veteran experiencing homelessness may not have “the means to a legal defense to get out of this situation.”

Monet also acknowledged the possibility that the memorandum could deter veterans from seeking care.

“That’s the last thing that I want to see happen for a veteran facing housing instability, because VA, for a long time, has been a really strong provider of health care, and the place that is, you know, a resource for folks in poverty,” Monet said.

Democratic Rep. Mark Takano, the ranking member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, also raised concerns that the memorandum will put veterans’ autonomy at risk. He said in a statement, “Veterans fought for our freedom and theirs. The federal government should not be engineering ways of taking it away.”

VA Secretary Doug Collins and Attorney General Pam Bondi have touted that allowing VA lawyers to petition for guardianship would make proceedings more efficient and ensure that veterans receive “timely” care.

“The Department of Justice is proud to partner with the Department of Veterans Affairs to support our nation’s brave Veterans by ensuring that they have the best legal resources available when it comes to making medical decisions and receiving timely care,” Bondi said in the statement. “We owe our Veterans a debt we can never fully repay — but we can give them the support they deserve.”

Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins (C) speaks during a hearing with the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on Capitol Hill on January 28, 2026, in Washington, DC.

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But even one supporter of the move said it would be tricky to implement.

Stephen Eide, who studies homelessness as a senior fellow at the conservative-leaning Manhattan Institute, told CNN he strongly believes “there should be more use of involuntary interventions to deal with the mental health crisis and the homeless crisis.”

“There is a certain kind of individual — who is homeless or at risk of it — who has a condition like schizophrenia and is not being treated, who simply cannot be relied on to seek treatment voluntarily,” Eide said. “For this type of person, the choices are either no treatment or some kind of involuntary treatment. And I’ll go with involuntary treatment.”

However, he added that addressing the issue “from the federal level is very awkward.”

“It will require a lot of coordination between police, social workers, state and local governments,” Eide said. “There will be complexity in the execution of this.”

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维持中立 斯里兰卡曾拒绝美国战斗机降落 | 联合早报

发布/2026年3月20日 16:42

3月5日，一名男子在科伦坡通过手机观看斯里兰卡总统迪萨纳亚克在特别媒体简报会上讲话。 （法新社）

斯里兰卡政府近期拒绝了两架美国战斗机在斯里兰卡南部马塔拉机场降落的请求。

斯里兰卡总统迪萨纳亚克星期五（3月20日）在议会发表讲话时说，根据斯里兰卡的中立政策，政府决定拒绝美国的请求。他说，斯里兰卡一直坚持中立，不会在任何压力下放弃这一立场。

新华社引述迪萨纳亚克说，斯里兰卡同样拒绝了此前伊朗提出的请求。伊朗提出要在3月9日至13日，派三艘海军舰艇访问斯里兰卡。

他告诉议会，这是为了维护斯里兰卡的中立，并确保领土不会用于任何可能帮助或阻碍交战双方的军事目的。

法新社报道，今年3月，美国军队在斯里兰卡海岸附近，用鱼雷击沉一艘伊朗护卫舰。

迪萨纳亚克说：“他们想在3月4日至8日期间，将两架携带八枚反舰导弹的战机，从吉布提（Djibouti）的一个基地转移马塔拉国际机场（Mattala International Airport），我们拒绝了。”

他说，美国于2月26日提出请求。同一天，伊朗也提出类似请求，希望三艘军舰在结束印度海军演习返回途中停靠科伦坡港。

他说道：“我们当时仍在考虑伊朗提出的3月9日至13日三艘军舰停靠科伦坡的请求。如果我们答应了伊朗的请求，就不得不答应美国的请求。

“但我们没有答应。我们始终坚持中立立场。”

迪萨纳亚克此言一出，赢得了在场225名议员的掌声。

EXCLUSIVE— As he praises President Donald Trump for “taking the fight directly” to Iran, former Vice President Mike also argues that the attacks show that the president isn’t listening to the isolationist wing of the Republican Party.

“It’s one of the things I give President Trump great credit for,” Pence said this week in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital.

Pence’s comments come nearly three weeks into the military strikes against Iran, as some loud voices in the MAGA and America First orbits have pilloried the president over the attacks.

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Smoke billows after airstrikes on oil depots, on March 8, 2026, in Tehran, Iran.(Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

The former vice president, who has long been a proponent of strong American deterrence around the world, highlighted that “around this administration, and to some extent in this administration, there have been some increasingly loud voices calling for America to pull back from our role as leader of the free world. Isolationist voices have taken hold in some quarters of the Republican Party.”

“But fortunately, President Trump turned a deaf ear to those voices last year when he struck Iran, and this year, when he launched Operation Epic Fury,” Pence emphasized. “I think it’s greatly to his credit.”

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Pence argued that it’s “reflective of where the overwhelming majority of Republicans are. Republicans understand that America is the arsenal of democracy, that we’re the leader of the free world, that we have obligations to lead.”

Former Vice President Mike Pence is interviewed by Fox News Digital on March 18, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

And pointing to his former boss during Trump’s first administration, Pence said, “I’ve told people many times, I’m proud of President Trump for making the decision to launch operation Epic Fury. But I’m not surprised, because the President I serve with is no isolationist.”

The military attacks by the U.S. and Israel have resulted in the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top officials, and the decimation of the country’s military.

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But Iran has retaliated with attacks against Israel and many of its other neighbors in the volatile Middle East.

Iran has also targeted energy facilities with missile and drone attacks in a number of Persian Gulf nations. It has also made the Strait of Hormuz nearly impassable to commercial shipping, bringing to a halt roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply, which has sent fuel prices skyrocketing in the U.S. and across the globe.

The Callisto tanker sits anchored as the traffic is down in the Strait of Hormuz amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Muscat, Oman, March 10, 2026.(Benoit Tessier / Reuters)

But Pence emphasized that he “couldn’t be more proud of President Donald Trump for making the decision to send our troops directly against an enemy that has literally claimed thousands of American lives, including nearly 1,000 service members.”

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The former vice president said Trump has “unleashed the armed forces of the United States to take the fight directly to the source of global terrorism. And I think at the end of the day, the American people understand that this is a fight that we have to win, and it’s going to be important that we finish the threat that Iran has posed to the American people, to our cherished ally, Israel, to nations across the region and across the West, once and for all.”

And Pence said that if he were advising Trump, he would urge the president “to finish the threat that the mullahs and Tehran have posed to the people of this country once and for all.”

Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.”

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GOP lawmakers grapple with $200B funding request for war with Iran

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Published 7:24 AM EDT, Fri March 20, 2026

Rep. Mike Haridopolos tells CNN’s Audie Cornish he wants “to hear the story” from the administration before voting on $200 billion to fund Iran war effort

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3月5日，一名男子在科伦坡通过手机观看斯里兰卡总统迪萨纳亚克在特别媒体简报会上讲话。 （法新社）

斯里兰卡政府近期拒绝了两架美国战斗机在斯里兰卡南部马塔拉机场降落的请求。

斯里兰卡总统迪萨纳亚克星期五（3月20日）在议会发表讲话时说，根据斯里兰卡的中立政策，政府决定拒绝美国的请求。他说，斯里兰卡一直坚持中立，不会在任何压力下放弃这一立场。

新华社引述迪萨纳亚克说，斯里兰卡同样拒绝了此前伊朗提出的请求。伊朗提出要在3月9日至13日，派三艘海军舰艇访问斯里兰卡。

他告诉议会，这是为了维护斯里兰卡的中立，并确保领土不会用于任何可能帮助或阻碍交战双方的军事目的。

法新社报道，今年3月，美国军队在斯里兰卡海岸附近，用鱼雷击沉一艘伊朗护卫舰。

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为何美军舰斯里兰卡外海突袭伊朗军舰意义重大？ 伊朗“布什尔”号军舰船员已转移至斯里兰卡

迪萨纳亚克说：“他们想在3月4日至8日期间，将两架携带八枚反舰导弹的战机，从吉布提（Djibouti）的一个基地转移马塔拉国际机场（Mattala International Airport），我们拒绝了。”

他说，美国于2月26日提出请求。同一天，伊朗也提出类似请求，希望三艘军舰在结束印度海军演习返回途中停靠科伦坡港。

他说道：“我们当时仍在考虑伊朗提出的3月9日至13日三艘军舰停靠科伦坡的请求。如果我们答应了伊朗的请求，就不得不答应美国的请求。

“但我们没有答应。我们始终坚持中立立场。”

迪萨纳亚克此言一出，赢得了在场225名议员的掌声。

Security concerns grow around World Cup in US after stalled funding | Reuters

By Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke
March 20, 2026 10:02 AM UTC Updated 1 hour ago

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• Summary

• Delayed $625 million security funds cause preparation setbacks
• FIFA and US briefings warn of extremist threats
• Also flag possible unrest linked to immigration policies
• Fan Festival events pose additional security challenges

WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) – Intelligence briefings reviewed by Reuters have warned of the potential for extremists and criminals to target the World Cup at a time when hundreds of millions of dollars of approved security funds have been delayed, causing U.S. preparations to fall behind.

The previously unreported ​briefings from U.S. federal and state officials and FIFA, the international federation overseeing the World Cup, outlined the risk of extremist attacks, including attacks on transportation infrastructure and civil unrest related to ‌President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

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The soccer World Cup, one of the globe’s biggest sporting events, will be held in June and July this year across three countries – the United States, Canada and Mexico.

While security at such events is always intense, U.S. law enforcement officials have been on especially heightened alert since the start of the war on Iran and have raised concerns over retaliatory threats.

Officials working to prepare for the World Cup in the United States have increasingly sounded alarms in recent weeks over a stalled $625 million in federal security grants for the ​event that were part of a Republican-backed spending bill passed in July 2025.

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency, tasked with distributing the money, said in November that it was expecting to allocate the funds no later ​than January 30.

Following inquiries by Reuters this month after officials and organizers complained that they had still received nothing, FEMA announced on Wednesday that it had awarded the grants, ⁠saying the money would “bolster security preparations.”

With the first matches kicking off in Mexico on June 11 and then the U.S. and Canada the next day, states and cities hosting the events are deep into planning, including how to safeguard ​from possible attacks. The delayed funding and threat warnings have compounded an already complex process, multiple officials involved told Reuters.

The grant money distribution process normally takes months, and efforts to buy technology and equipment can take even longer, according to ​Mike Sena, president of the National Fusion Center Association, which represents a network of 80 information centers across the U.S. that facilitate federal, state and local intelligence sharing.

“It will be extremely tight,” he said.

A December 2025 intelligence report from New Jersey looking at potential threats to matches in the state – which will include the final – flagged recent domestic attacks, disrupted terror plots and a proliferation of extremist propaganda. The report also noted the possibility of spontaneous gatherings related to tensions between countries.

Another intelligence report, dated September 2025, described an online post ​appearing to encourage attacks on railroad infrastructure during the World Cup that said there were “plenty of opportunities for us to knock it off the tracks” and highlighted matches on the West Coast of the U.S. and Canada. The documents ​were obtained through open records requests by the transparency nonprofit Property of the People.

DELAYED FUNDING, WORRIES ABOUT ICE

Democrats have blamed outgoing U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for delaying the release of the money. Under Noem’s leadership, DHS also withheld, opens new tab hundreds of ‌millions of dollars ⁠in homeland security funds last year from a dozen Democratic-led states and Washington, D.C., while pressing them to increase immigration enforcement.

In response to a request for comment, White House spokesman Davis Ingle faulted Democrats for the delayed funding, citing disagreements over immigration enforcement tactics.

“The president is focused on making this the greatest World Cup ever while ensuring it is the safest and most secure in history,” Ingle said in a statement. “The Democrats need to stop playing games.”

Trump’s immigration crackdown has already cast a pall over the event and raised concerns about the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Since Trump took office in January 2025, masked immigration agents have rounded up suspected immigration offenders in U.S. cities and ​detained some tourists at airports.

That has coincided with a Trump-era ​dropoff in overall international visitors, according to U.S. Commerce ⁠Department data. Early signs have however indicated still strong appetite for flight bookings and ticket sales for the tournament.

In a FIFA weekly intelligence briefing dated January 28, analysts warned that anti-ICE activism in U.S. cities in response to immigration enforcement could lower the barriers “to hostile actions by lone actors or extremist elements.”

Trump has also placed full or partial travel bans on ​nationals of more than three dozen countries, including Iran, which is in talks with FIFA to move its matches to Mexico due to its current conflict with the United States. ​Three other countries whose fans face ⁠Trump travel bans – Haiti, Ivory Coast and Senegal – have also qualified for the tournament.

SECURITY CONCERNS EXTEND TO FAN EVENTS

Several World Cup and state officials have said “FIFA Fan Festival” events are a particular concern. The events allow large numbers of people to watch matches together on open-air screens.

A Fan Festival event that had been planned in Liberty State Park in Jersey City for the duration of the tournament was canceled unexpectedly last month and replaced with smaller gatherings.

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill said at the ⁠time that many ​smaller events would allow more people in the area to enjoy the experience. Security concerns also factored in the decision, a person familiar ​with the planning said.

U.S. Representative Nellie Pou, a Democrat representing a district in New Jersey that includes MetLife Stadium, one of the sites where games will be played, said that each of the World Cup’s 104 matches would be equivalent to a Super Bowl.

“Local government, local law enforcement, will ​certainly have their hands full,” Pou said. “They need every single dollar that they are eligible to receive, and they need it now.”

Reporting by Ted Hesson in Washington and Kristina Cooke in San Francisco; Editing by Craig Timberg and Rosalba O’Brien

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伊朗：革命卫队发言人遇害 导弹生产不受影响 | 联合早报

发布/2026年3月20日 17:13

伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队发言人纳伊尼在[美国和以色列的袭击]中遇害。

多家伊朗媒体星期五（3月20日）引述革命卫队声明说，纳伊尼在“真实承诺”系列行动中作出卓越贡献。伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队“将继续打击恐怖主义犯罪分子”，“革命卫队的软实力和精神力量绝不会削弱”。

伊朗导弹生产仍在继续

伊朗革命卫队说，尽管在[与以色列和美国交战]，伊朗仍在继续生产导弹。

法新社引述法尔斯通讯社的报道说，革命卫队发言人指出：“我们的导弹工业堪称完美……在这方面无需担忧，因为即使在战时条件下，我们也在继续生产导弹。”

新华社引述发言人说，伊朗的导弹工业“将获得满分”，“在这方面没有任何担忧”。发言人说：“这令人惊叹，同时在储备方面也没有任何特别的问题。”

以色列总理内坦亚胡星期四说：“伊朗已不再具备浓缩铀和制造弹道导弹的能力。”