发布时间：2026年3月23日，美国东部时间下午6:08 / 来源：CNN
作者：凯文·利普塔克、凯莉·阿特伍德、扎卡里·科恩、詹妮弗·汉斯拉
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上周，当唐纳德·特朗普总统离开华盛顿前往佛罗里达州时，结束与伊朗的战争似乎是他最不愿考虑的事情。
“当你实际上正在摧毁对方时，你不会停火，”周五他在白宫南草坪说，随后登上直升机离开。
三天后，一次最后通牒，以及（据他称）与德黑兰一位神秘官员的几次交谈后，特朗普的态度发生了转变。
“他们想要和解，我们会促成此事，”周一他在田纳西州孟菲斯的人群面前宣称，之后参观了猫王埃尔维斯的 Graceland。
这一突然的转变，以及特朗普所说的迅速推进的和平谈判，标志着政府对战争态度的急剧转向——此前总统周六晚上曾威胁称，若霍尔木兹海峡在48小时内不开放，将打击伊朗的发电厂。
据两名消息人士透露，现在甚至有一项提议，让巴基斯坦本周晚些时候主持美伊会谈，副总统JD·万斯可能会出席。CNN已联系万斯办公室寻求置评。
据知情人士透露，美国立场的转变源于海湾盟友的警告：打击伊朗民用电力设施可能导致灾难性升级。而周一美国股市开盘前两小时宣布的谈判消息，推动华尔街上涨，布伦特原油价格大幅下跌——这两个领域一直让特朗普及其顾问感到头疼。
谁在进行对话，甚至是否真的在交谈，立即成为争议焦点。特朗普拒绝透露其特使接触的伊朗对话者身份，仅称该官员“受尊敬”，并提供了极少细节。即便总统在讲话时，额外的海军陆战队部队仍正向中东部署，加剧了对谈判真实性的怀疑。
伊朗方面否认进行任何谈判，并声称特朗普退缩是因为害怕伊朗报复。
“没有与美国举行任何谈判，”伊朗议会议长穆罕默德·巴盖尔·加利巴夫（据传是特朗普所指的官员）在社交平台X上写道。他表示，美国推迟打击发电厂是为了“摆脱美国和以色列陷入的泥潭”。
尽管如此，否认措辞谨慎，并未反驳双方传递试探性消息以重启谈判的事实。
美伊间的多方调解
五位知情人士向CNN透露，随着战争影响在全球蔓延，多个国家正积极斡旋美伊达成协议。消息人士称，尽管特朗普声称自战争爆发以来双方无直接谈判，但事实并非如此。
白宫拒绝详细说明讨论内容，特朗普称谈判由特使史蒂夫·维特科夫和贾里德·库什纳主导。
“这些是敏感外交讨论，美国不会通过媒体进行谈判。情况瞬息万变，在白宫正式宣布之前，有关会议的猜测不应被视为最终结果，”新闻秘书卡罗琳·利维特在声明中表示。
知情人士称，巴基斯坦、土耳其、埃及和阿曼参与了斡旋工作，外交努力旨在实现停火并确保船只安全通过霍尔木兹海峡。
两名地区消息人士称，美国通过巴基斯坦向伊朗传递了一份15点期望清单，但目前尚不清楚伊朗是否同意其中任何条款。一名消息人士表示，其中几点“几乎不可能”被伊朗接受，另一名消息人士称这与美国去年提出的条款类似。特朗普周一也提及15点提议，并声称美伊已达成“主要共识”。
巴基斯坦正在制定提案并开展斡旋，阿曼也在美伊之间就霍尔木兹海峡问题传递信息，埃及也在进行积极外交努力，消息人士称。
巴基斯坦与特朗普政府过去一年关系密切，长期与伊朗政权保持对话。该国与伊朗接壤，约90%的石油通过霍尔木兹海峡运输，因此冲突直接影响到巴基斯坦，一名消息人士指出。
巴基斯坦方面，情报负责人阿西姆·马利克中将正与维特科夫和库什纳接触，一名消息人士称。
“如果双方同意，巴基斯坦随时准备主持谈判，”外交部发言人塔希尔·侯赛因·安德拉比周一告诉CNN。
此外，土耳其外长哈坎·菲丹与包括伊朗外长阿巴斯·阿拉格奇和埃及外长巴德尔·阿卜杜拉蒂在内的 counterparts进行了密集通话，一名消息人士称。菲丹周日还与维特科夫通话。
一名地区消息人士推测，政府通过多国向伊朗传递信息，确保德黑兰所有相关人士接收到信号。该消息人士称，双方理解战争的持久结束可能需要更长时间。
“外交正在进行中，有多个提案在运作。外交的本质是自由流动的讨论，”一名知情人士表示。“讨论中的任何提案都尚未进入成熟或被普遍接受的阶段。”
其他政府表示知晓正在进行的谈判。英国首相基尔·斯塔默周日晚间与特朗普通电话后表示：“我们（英国）意识到了此事正在发生。”
消息人士称，特朗普政府高级成员（包括总统和万斯）周一也确保以色列了解这些进展。特朗普和万斯均与以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡通电话，后者近期战争目标与美国出现分歧。
突然开放谈判窗口
周一，在吹嘘所谓谈判时，特朗普详细阐述了15点提案中的多项具体内容——许多条款听起来与战前美国的要求相似。
“他们不会拥有核武器，这是第一点，也是第二、三点，”他在谈及清单时表示。“他们永远不会拥有核武器。”
他还称，美国将坚持获取伊朗高浓缩铀（据信埋藏在伊斯法罕核设施地下，美国曾于6月轰炸中摧毁该设施）。“我们要获取核废料，我认为我们会得到它，”特朗普说。
两名地区消息人士称，其他谈判要点包括：限制德黑兰的防御能力、停止支持代理武装，以及承认以色列的生存权。
特朗普周一的言论与其此前几周的态度形成鲜明对比。他曾轻视重启与德黑兰对话的可能性，称伊朗政权既无诚意让步，领导层也不稳定。
“据我们所知，他们所有领导人都已死亡。但他们确实都死了，我们不知道在与谁谈判，”他上周表示。
周五晚上，他仍称无意促成停火，但表示“可以对话”。“我们可以进行对话，但我不想停火，”他在南草坪说道。
一小时后，当他乘坐空军一号飞往棕榈滩时，在社交媒体上写道，考虑在战争进入第四周时“结束战争”。
但到次日晚上，在宴会厅为客人跳舞并与国家安全顾问磋商期间，他显然意识到，为重新开放霍尔木兹海峡（全球20%石油依赖的关键水道）所做的努力未能如愿。于是他设定了48小时期限，誓言打击伊朗发电厂。
根据特朗普的说法，与伊朗的谈判在周六晚上发出威胁后不久就开始了。周日上午出现在脱口秀节目的政府官员对秘密谈判迹象表示否认。
“有时你必须升级才能降级，”财政部长斯科特·贝森特在NBC上说。
然而，对伊朗民用基础设施的威胁令海湾官员震惊，他们紧急警告美国政府，此举将大幅升级冲突。伊朗方面证实了这些担忧，警告将报复性打击美国中东盟友的能源设施和其他基础设施，包括海水淡化厂（该地区多国几乎全部依赖其获取淡水）。
一些美国盟友认为，摧毁伊朗电力设施将摧毁该国，使战后重建难以进行。
但在新谈判迹象出现之际，谁将最终为伊朗签署协议仍不明确。
新任最高领袖穆贾塔巴·哈梅内伊的健康状况不明，其缺乏高级外交经验引发对其参与谈判的质疑。外长阿拉格奇正与阿曼接触，但不确定他是否同时是其他国家传递信息的伊朗方面联络人，消息人士称。
“我们还没收到‘儿子’的回应，”特朗普周一表示。
不过，他对谈判能迅速结束战争表现出乐观态度。
“你要明白，我的一生都在谈判，”总统在孟菲斯对听众说。“但与伊朗的谈判已持续很久，这次他们是认真的。”
How Trump shifted from threatening Iran’s power plants to touting peace talks
Published Mar 23, 2026, 6:08 PM ET / Source: CNN
By Kevin Liptak, Kylie Atwood, Zachary Cohen, Jennifer Hansler
1 hr 51 min ago
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport on Monday in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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As President Donald Trump was departing Washington last week for Florida, ending the war with Iran appeared the last thing on his mind.
“You don’t do a ceasefire when you’re literally obliterating the other side,” he said Friday from the White House South Lawn before getting in his helicopter and flying away.
Three days, one ultimatum and — in his telling — a few conversations with a mystery official in Tehran later, Trump had adopted a different view.
“They want to settle, and we’re going to get it done,” he declared before a crowd in Memphis, Tennessee, on Monday, before touring Elvis’ Graceland.
The sudden turnabout and, according to Trump, rapidly advancing peace talks made for an abrupt shift in the administration’s approach to the war after the president threatened Saturday evening to hit Iran’s power plants if the Strait of Hormuz wasn’t opened in 48 hours.
And now there is an even a proposal for Pakistan to host a meeting between the US and Iran later this week, which Vice President JD Vance could attend, two sources said. CNN has reached out to Vance’s office.
The change in US posture came after warnings from Gulf allies that the striking civilian power sites in Iran could lead to disastrous escalation, according to people familiar with the conversations. And the announcement of talks, made two hours before the open of US trading on Monday, resulted in a rally on Wall Street and a sharp slide in the price of Brent crude — both areas that had been causing heartburn for Trump and his advisers.
Who, exactly, is doing the talking — or even whether they were talking at all — instantly became a matter of dispute. Trump, who refused to name the Iranian interlocutor his envoys were engaging, provided few details beyond describing the official as “respected.” And even as the president was speaking, additional Marine units were heading toward the Middle East, fueling skepticism about how real the talks are.
For its part, Tehran denied any talks and claimed Trump had backed down from his threat because he was afraid of Iranian retaliation.
“No negotiations have been held with the US,” Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who was rumored to be the official Trump was referring to, wrote on X. He said the US’ postponement of power plant strikes was meant to “escape the quagmire in which the US and Israel are trapped.”
Still, the denials were carefully worded and did not refute that messages had been passed back and forth testing the waters for a potential resumption of talks.
Multiple intermediaries between US and Iran
Multiple countries are now actively working to mediate a deal between the US and Iran as the impacts of the war reverberate across the world, five sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The sources were not aware of any direct negotiations between the US and Iran since the outbreak of the war, despite Trump’s claims.
The White House refused to elaborate on the discussions, which Trump said were led by his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
“These are sensitive diplomatic discussions and the U.S. will not negotiate through the press. This is a fluid situation, and speculation about meetings should not be deemed as final until they are formally announced by the White House,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt and Oman are involved in negotiation efforts, the sources familiar said. The diplomatic efforts are aimed at both reaching a ceasefire and securing safe passage for ships through the Strait of Hormuz, they said.
Two regional sources said the US had shared a 15-point list of expectations for the Iranians via Pakistan, but it was unclear whether Iran had agreed to any of the terms. One source said several of the points would be “next to impossible” for Iran to accept, and the other source said it mirrored the points the US tabled with Iran in discussions last year. Trump on Monday also referenced a 15-point proposal when he claimed the US and Iran had reached “major points of agreement.”
The Pakistanis are working on a proposal and mediation efforts, and the Omanis have also sent messages back and forth between the US and Iran regarding the Strait of Hormuz, sources said. The Egyptians are also engaged in what sources described as active diplomatic efforts, sources said.
Pakistan has developed a strong relationship with the Trump administration over the last year, and has long maintained discussions with the Iranian regime. The country shares a long border with Iran and gets about 90% of its oil through the Strait of Hormuz, so the conflict has directly impacted the country, one source pointed out.
On the Pakistani side, the Intelligence Chief Lt. Gen. Asim Malik is one of the officials now engaging with Witkoff and Kushner, one source said.
“If both sides agree, Pakistan is always ready to host talks,” Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Hussain Andrabi told CNN on Monday.
And there has been a flurry of calls between Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and counterparts, including Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, one source said. Fidan also spoke with Witkoff on Sunday.
One of the regional sources theorized the administration is reaching out to Iran through multiple countries to ensure its messages are being received by all relevant figures in Tehran. There is an understanding, this source said, that a sustained end to the war will likely be a longer process.
“Diplomacy is being conducted as we speak, there are multiple proposals in play. The nature of diplomacy is that it’s a free-flowing discussion,” said a source familiar with the discussions. “None of the proposals discussed have reached a stage of maturing or general acceptance.”
Other governments said they were aware of ongoing talks. “We, the UK, were aware that that was happening,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who spoke by telephone with Trump on Sunday evening, said a day later.
Senior members of the Trump administration, including the president and Vance, also worked Monday to ensure Israel was aware of the developments, sources said. Both Trump and Vance spoke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose war objectives have appeared to diverge from the United States’ in recent days.
President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable discussion on public safety at a Tennessee Air National Guard Base, on Monday, in Memphis, Tennessee.
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A sudden openness to talking
On Monday, as he touted the supposed talks, Trump detailed several of the specifics among the 15-point proposal — many of which sounded similar to US demands before the war.
“They’re not going to have a nuclear weapon. That’s number one. That’s number one, two and three,” he said of the list. “They will never have a nuclear weapon.”
He also said the US would insist on taking possession of Iran’s highly enriched uranium, believed to be buried deep underneath the Isfahan nuclear site, which the US destroyed during a bombing run in June. “We want the nuclear dust. We’re going to want that, and I think we’re going to get that,” Trump said.
Among the other points on the table: limits on Tehran’s defense capabilities, a cessation of support for proxies and an acknowledgment of Israel’s right to exist, the two regional sources said.
Trump’s comments Monday were a departure for the president, who for weeks had shrugged off even the idea of restarting discussions with Tehran, suggesting the regime was neither serious about making the requisite concessions nor its leadership intact enough to act as a reliable negotiating partner.
“All of their leaders are dead, as far as we know. But they’re all dead. We don’t know who we’re dealing with,” he said last week.
On Friday evening, as he said he was uninterested in brokering a truce, Trump still said he would be open to talking. “We could have dialogue, but I don’t want to do a ceasefire,” he said on the South Lawn.
An hour later, as he was jetting toward Palm Beach aboard Air Force One, Trump wrote on social media he was considering “winding down” the war as it entered its fourth week.
But by the next evening, in between dancing for guests in his ballroom and conferring with national security advisers, it had become clearer than ever that his efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz — a key waterway for 20% of the world’s oil — had fallen short. He set a 48-hour clock before vowing to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants.
By Trump’s own narrative, the talks with Iran commenced around the same time Saturday evening he issued his threat. Administration officials appearing on Sunday morning talk shows gave little indication that secret talks were underway that might convince the president to back off.
“Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on NBC.
Yet the threat against Iran’s civilian infrastructure alarmed officials in the Gulf, who rushed to warn the US administration that doing so would amount to many steps up the escalation ladder, according to people familiar with the conversations.
Iran appeared to confirm those fears, warning it would retaliate by targeting energy sites and other infrastructure among the US’ Middle Eastern allies, including desalination plants, which many countries in the region rely on for nearly all their fresh water.
And some US partners conveyed a view that destroying power infrastructure in Iran could devastate the country, and preclude efforts to rebuild once the war ends.
But amid new talk of talking, it’s unclear who would give final sign-off for Iran on a deal.
The health status of new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is unknown. His inexperience in high-level diplomacy also begs questions about his involvement. And Araghchi, the foreign minister, is engaged with the Omanis, but it’s not clear that he is also the point person on the Iranian side for messages other countries are sending between the two sides, sources said.
“We have not heard from the son,” Trump said Monday.
However, he appeared optimistic his efforts could result in a quick resolution to the war.
“You have to understand, my whole life has been a negotiation,” the president told his audience in Memphis. “But with Iran, we’ve been negotiating for a long time. And this time, they mean business.”