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与伊朗有关联巴基斯坦男子 密谋刺杀特朗普罪成

发布时间：2026年3月7日 09:25 / 来源：联合早报

一名据称与伊朗有联系的巴基斯坦男子星期五（3月6日）在美国被判处罪名成立，罪名为密谋刺杀美国总统特朗普或其他美国政治人物，以报复美军2020年击杀时任伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队指挥官苏莱曼尼。

法新社报道，美国检察官在布鲁克林联邦法院的审判中证明阿西夫·拉扎·默钱特（Asif Raza Merchant）曾试图雇佣一名杀手刺杀美国一名政治人物或政府官员。

负责伊朗对外军事行动的革命卫队圣城旅指挥官苏莱曼尼，2020年1月在巴格达的一次美国无人机袭击中丧生。伊朗官员多次誓言要为苏莱曼尼报仇。

根据多家媒体报道，默钱特在4日的审讯中说，他被迫参加密谋行动，原因是为了保护他在德黑兰的家人免受革命卫队的伤害。他也认为自己会在任何人被暗杀前就被捕。

默钱特说，他从未被命令杀害特定的人，但他的伊朗联系人曾提到与行刺阴谋相关的三个人，包括美国总统特朗普、美国前总统拜登和美国前常驻联合国代表黑利。

检方发言人告诉法新社，默钱特被判犯有跨国恐怖主义罪和买凶杀人两项罪名，量刑日期仍待确定。默钱特可能面临终身监禁。

在默钱特受审之时，美国和以色列正对伊朗展开大规模空袭，伊朗最高领袖哈梅内伊在美以空袭首日丧命。

与伊朗有关联巴基斯坦男子 密谋刺杀特朗普罪成

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一名据称与伊朗有联系的巴基斯坦男子星期五（3月6日）在美国被判处罪名成立，罪名为密谋刺杀美国总统特朗普或其他美国政治人物，以报复美军2020年击杀时任伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队指挥官苏莱曼尼。

法新社报道，美国检察官在布鲁克林联邦法院的审判中证明阿西夫·拉扎·默钱特（Asif Raza Merchant）曾试图雇佣一名杀手刺杀美国一名政治人物或政府官员。

负责伊朗对外军事行动的革命卫队圣城旅指挥官苏莱曼尼，2020年1月在巴格达的一次美国无人机袭击中丧生。伊朗官员多次誓言要为苏莱曼尼报仇。

根据多家媒体报道，默钱特在4日的审讯中说，他被迫参加密谋行动，原因是为了保护他在德黑兰的家人免受革命卫队的伤害。他也认为自己会在任何人被暗杀前就被捕。

默钱特说，他从未被命令杀害特定的人，但他的伊朗联系人曾提到与行刺阴谋相关的三个人，包括美国总统特朗普、美国前总统拜登和美国前常驻联合国代表黑利。

检方发言人告诉法新社，默钱特被判犯有跨国恐怖主义罪和买凶杀人两项罪名，量刑日期仍待确定。默钱特可能面临终身监禁。

在默钱特受审之时，美国和以色列正对伊朗展开大规模空袭，伊朗最高领袖哈梅内伊在美以空袭首日丧命。

A Pakistani man convicted Friday of plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump and other politicians told an FBI agent he thought Iran “was responsible” for the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Asif Merchant, 47, told the FBI agent, Jacqueline Smith, that the incident “was the same thing he was sent here to do,” Smith testified during Merchant’s trial. Merchant told jurors the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) sent him on a “mission” to kill U.S. politicians, including by telling him to attend a Republican rally.

Merchant was arrested July 12, 2024, one day prior to the shooting in Butler, where Thomas Crooks fired several shots into a rally crowd, killing one and grazing Trump’s ear.

The FBI has said repeatedly it found no evidence that Crooks had co-conspirators or that any foreign actors were involved in the incident.

Merchant, who was found guilty on all charges Friday after fewer than two hours of deliberation, was convicted by a jury of murder-for-hire and attempting to commit terrorism. He testified that Trump was not his only target, telling jurors then-President Joe Biden and former presidential candidate Nikki Haley were also on his list.

He claimed he only took part in the plot, which was foiled by the FBI before coming to fruition, because Iran’s IRGC warned it would target his family.

“I had no other options,” Merchant said. “My family was threatened.”

Merchant now faces a maximum penalty of life in prison. His sentence will be determined at a later hearing.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement that Merchant “landed on American soil hoping to kill President Trump — instead, he was met with the might of American law enforcement.”

“The Department of Justice will remain ever-vigilant to protect Americans, prosecute terrorists, and halt acts of terrorism before they happen,” Bondi said.

Merchant was arrested after he was recorded on camera outlining a plot on a napkin to kill a politician with a person who turned out to be an FBI informant. Federal prosecutors showed video during the trial of Merchant speaking to the informant. The prosecutors said Merchant also tried to hire two hit men and pay them $5,000, but the men turned out to be federal agents posing as assassins.

Smith, the FBI agent who met with Merchant after his arrest, said Merchant never conveyed that he feared for his family. Merchant said he wanted to do intelligence work and be paid for it, Smith said.

The FBI agent also said Merchant was told by an Iranian handler to attend a Republican political rally to scope out security. But Merchant was worried about being identified, so he watched the rally online instead.

Merchant’s defense team told jurors their client, who has two wives, was a family man and cared deeply about his faith and that he intentionally acted carelessly because he wanted to be caught.

In their closing arguments, defense lawyers said Merchant had his hand forced in the operation, thinking his family would be harmed if he did not cooperate. Additionally, the lawyers cited several instances in which Merchant’s actions as an intelligence operator were little more than incompetent.

Fox News’ Danielle Cavaliere, Brendan McDonald and Alexis McAdams contributed to this report.

At college sports roundtable, Trump says “whole educational system” could go out of business unless fixed

March 6, 2026 / 8:32 PM EST / AP

President Trump predicted the destruction not just of college sports but the entire U.S. collegiate system unless the industry is fixed quickly — something some sports leaders who joined him Friday at a White House summit agreed could only happen by raising more money to pay players.

Trump suggested he would write an “all-encompassing” executive order within a week in hopes it would spark action from Congress. He also said he expected the order to trigger a lawsuit that could put the issue back in front of the court system that approved industry-changing payments to players for their name, image and likeness.

The new system has left many schools drowning in red ink from paying players, while rules governing those payments are only slowly taking hold.

“The whole educational system is going to go out of business because of this,” Trump explained, when asked why he was devoting time to college sports with the war in Iran and other issues dominating the headlines.

During the meeting in the East Room — which included lawmakers, conference commissioners, the president of the NCAA and CEO of the U.S. Olympic team, but none of the NCAA’s 550,000 college athletes — Trump said, “I thought the system of scholarships was great.” He was harkening to the recently ended era in which players received little to nothing beyond the financial aid.

He said the “horrible” court settlement that led to the current system — a settlement that virtually everyone in the room agreed to — “threw the sports world and … the college athletic world into ‘tithers.’”

President Trump speaks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a roundtable discussion on college sports at the White House on Friday, March 6, 2026. Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP

Virtually everyone in the room agreed that the industry needs to be saved from the spiraling costs associated with the onset of NIL payments and that a bill called the SCORE Act, which has struggled to pass the House, could be the base of any change. House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested there were now enough votes to pass it.

Fewer dug into the details, specifically the wide differences that exist over how to fund all this growth. Among the key proposals in play over the last several months was one that would rewrite the existing Sports Broadcasting Act to allow college conferences to pool their TV rights.

One key backer of that, Texas Tech regent Cody Campbell, was at the meeting and told Mr. Trump he would like to be part of a smaller working group that helps him draft his executive order.

Campbell has suggested pooling TV rights could raise another $6 billion, which could keep football, basketball and Olympic sports programs solvent for decades. The Southeastern Conference and the Big Ten disagree with that conclusion.

Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference Greg Sankey speaks during a roundtable discussion on college sports in the East Room on Friday, March 6, 2026. Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey urged the Senate to act.

“This is not about revenue, this is about structures and national standards,” he said before listing a number of issues the SCORE Act, as currently written, would address, which includes a limited antitrust exemption for the NCAA that many Democrats oppose.

Sen. Ted Cruz, whose committee is key to getting a bill passed in the upper chamber, said lawmakers needed to look at both the cost side and the revenue side in formulating a law.

“If we wait another year, wait another two years, the programs in your state are going away and the students in your state are losing their scholarships,” Cruz said. “It would be an absolute travesty if we let that happen.”

伊朗再度否认关闭霍尔木兹海峡 | 联合早报

发布/2026年3月7日 09:34

伊朗表示目前没有关闭霍尔木兹海峡的计划，并否认有关伊朗已经全面封锁该海峡的说法。

伊朗半官方媒体塔斯尼姆通讯社星期五（3月6日）报道，伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队一名高级军官在国家电视台说，一些媒体称伊朗已经关闭霍尔木兹海峡的说法并不准确。“我们被一些人指责关闭海峡，但事实上伊朗并没有关闭这条海峡。”

这名高级军官表示，伊朗将按照国际航行规则处理相关海域航运问题。

伊朗国家电视台6日还引述伊朗军方消息说，“霍尔木兹海峡仍然开放，但任何属于美国或以色列的船只都将成为目标”。

同一天，伊朗外交部副部长哈提卜扎德在印度新德里出席国际会议时表示，伊朗目前并未关闭霍尔木兹海峡，也没有立即采取这一措施的打算。他说：“如果伊朗决定关闭海峡，将会正式宣布。”

伊朗多家媒体5日引述一名伊朗军官的话说，伊朗并未关闭霍尔木兹海峡。这名伊朗军官说，伊朗按照国际协议对待过境船舶，“只针对伪装成商船的军舰进行拦截”。伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队同一天说，在战争时期，伊朗有权控制霍尔木兹海峡的通行和航行，美国、以色列、欧洲国家船只被禁止通行。

伊朗再度否认关闭霍尔木兹海峡

发布/2026年3月7日 09:34

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伊朗表示目前没有关闭霍尔木兹海峡的计划，并否认有关伊朗已经全面封锁该海峡的说法。

伊朗半官方媒体塔斯尼姆通讯社星期五（3月6日）报道，伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队一名高级军官在国家电视台说，一些媒体称伊朗已经关闭霍尔木兹海峡的说法并不准确。“我们被一些人指责关闭海峡，但事实上伊朗并没有关闭这条海峡。”

这名高级军官表示，伊朗将按照国际航行规则处理相关海域航运问题。

伊朗国家电视台6日还引述伊朗军方消息说，“霍尔木兹海峡仍然开放，但任何属于美国或以色列的船只都将成为目标”。

同一天，伊朗外交部副部长哈提卜扎德在印度新德里出席国际会议时表示，伊朗目前并未关闭霍尔木兹海峡，也没有立即采取这一措施的打算。他说：“如果伊朗决定关闭海峡，将会正式宣布。”

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伊朗多家媒体5日引述一名伊朗军官的话说，伊朗并未关闭霍尔木兹海峡。这名伊朗军官说，伊朗按照国际协议对待过境船舶，“只针对伪装成商船的军舰进行拦截”。伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队同一天说，在战争时期，伊朗有权控制霍尔木兹海峡的通行和航行，美国、以色列、欧洲国家船只被禁止通行。

White House seeks bolder action on energy prices amid Iran conflict

March 7, 2026 1:43 AM UTC / Reuters

By Jarrett Renshaw and Nandita Bose

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A gas pump is inserted inside an Audi vehicle at a Mobil gas station in Beverly Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, U.S., March 10, 2022. Picture taken March 10, 2022. REUTERS/Bing Guan/File Photo

• Summary

• White House seeks quick measures without congressional approval
• Rising gasoline prices could impact Trump in midterm elections
• U.S. crude oil prices rise over 12% amid Middle Eastern supply constraints

March 6 (Reuters) – The White House is asking federal agencies to step up efforts ​to address soaring energy prices from the Iran conflict, signaling a concern that steps taken so far may not be enough, ‌according to two people familiar with the matter.

Senior officials have asked the departments of Energy, Transportation and Treasury and the Environmental Protection Agency to provide more policy options, with an emphasis on measures that President Donald Trump could implement without congressional approval, one of the sources told Reuters.

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The requests indicate that the White ​House is preparing for the possibility that bolder action may be needed if oil and gas prices continue to climb. ​Political analysts say higher gasoline prices could hurt Trump and his Republican Party in November’s midterm elections, ⁠when control of Congress is at stake.

“Obviously the White House is coordinating with the interagency on this important issue, if we were ​not, it would be a problem. President Trump and his entire energy team have had a strong game plan to keep oil prices ​stable well before Operation Epic Fury began, and they will continue to review all credible options and execute on them when appropriate,

Man convicted in plot to assassinate Trump that was tied to Iran’s paramilitary

March 6, 2026 / 9:13 PM EST / CBS/AP

A Pakistani business owner who tried to hire hit men to kill a U.S. politician was convicted Friday in a trial that showcased allegations of Iran-backed plotting on American soil.

As the Iran war unfolded in the Mideast, Asif Merchant acknowledged in a U.S. court that he sought to put an assassination in motion during the 2024 presidential campaign — a plot that was quickly disrupted by American investigators before it had a chance to proceed.

A jury in Brooklyn convicted Merchant on terrorism and murder for hire charges. He faces up to life in prison.

The verdict after only a couple hours of deliberations followed a weeklong trial that included remarkable testimony from Merchant himself.

A photo of Asif Merchant, provided by the Justice Department in the complaint supporting the arrest warrant. AP

Merchant told the jury he was carrying out instructions from a contact in the Islamic Republic’s powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. According to Merchant, the handler never specified a target but broached names including President Trump, then-President Joe Biden and Nikki Haley, the former U.N. ambassador who was also in the race for a time.

The Iranian government has denied trying to kill U.S. officials.

The nascent plot fell apart after Merchant showed an acquaintance what he had in mind by using objects on a napkin to depict a shooting at a rally. He asked the man to help him hire assassins. Instead, he was introduced to undercover FBI agents who were secretly recording him, as had the acquaintance.

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Merchant told the supposed hit men he needed services that could include killing “some political person” and paid them $5,000 in cash in a parked car in Manhattan.

“This man landed on American soil hoping to kill President Trump — instead, he was met with the might of American law enforcement,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement released after the conviction.

Merchant’s attorney, Avraham Moskowitz, didn’t immediately reply to a message from the Associated Press seeking comment.

“Merchant tried to hire someone to kill a politician or a U.S. government official, but the FBI and our partners stopped that deadly plot,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement. “This was not the first attempt by Iran to harm our citizens on U.S. soil; the other efforts also failed.”

Merchant, 47, worked for Pakistani banks for decades before going into clothing and other businesses. He has two families, in Pakistan and Iran, and he sometimes visited the U.S. for his garment business.

Merchant testified that he met a Revolutionary Guard intelligence operative about three years ago. The contact gave him countersurveillance training and assignments including the assassination scheme, Merchant said.

He maintained that he had to do his handler’s bidding to protect loved ones in Iran. The defendant said he reluctantly went through the motions but thought he’d be arrested and explain his situation to authorities before anyone was killed.

“I was going along with it,” he said, speaking in Urdu through a court interpreter.

Prosecutors emphasized that Merchant admitted taking steps to enact the plan on behalf of the Revolutionary Guard, which the U.S. considers a foreign terrorist organization, and he didn’t proactively go to authorities.

Instead, he was packing for a flight to Pakistan when he was arrested on July 12, 2024. During a search, investigators said they found a handwritten note that contained the codewords for the various aspects of the plot, CBS Newspreviously reported.

Merchant was arrested a day before an unrelated attempt on Mr. Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania. Officials said it appeared the Butler gunman acted alone, but that they had been tracking a threat on Mr. Trump’s life from Iran, a claim that the Islamic Republic called “unsubstantiated and malicious.”

When Merchant subsequently spoke to FBI agents to explore the possibility of a cooperation agreement, he didn’t say he had acted out of fear for his family.

Prosecutors argued that he didn’t back up a defense of acting under duress. Merchant sought to persuade jurors he simply didn’t think the agents would believe him because they seemed to “think that I am some type of super-spy,” which he said he was “absolutely not.”

特朗普若坚持要伊朗“无条件投降” 这场冲突或持续更久 | 联合早报

发布时间：2026年3月7日 10:23 / 来源：联合早报

《纽约时报》星期五（3月6日）指出，如果美国总统特朗普坚持要伊朗“无条件投降”，这场冲突可能会持续更长时间。

以色列和美国对伊朗的轰炸已进入第六天，伊朗在公开场合没有表现出任何投降的意愿，还将战火扩大到驻有美军基地的阿拉伯国家，用导弹和无人机袭击这些国家，尽管近日的袭击数量有所减少。

特朗普对于伊朗的立场则一变再变，他的最新立场是绝不会接受伊朗“无条件投降”以外的任何条件。

特朗普6日在社媒发文道：“除非伊朗无条件投降，否则不会达成任何协议。”他说，伊朗投降后，他会为伊朗“选出一位或多位伟大且可接受的领导人”，并承诺美国及盟友“将不遗余力地把伊朗从毁灭边缘拉回来”。

特朗普对这场战争设定的目标不断变化，令他的幕僚和国会盟友疲于应对，有时甚至不得不与特朗普的立场相悖。

在美以发动空袭的头一天，特朗普呼吁伊朗人民起来推翻政府。但在随后几天，美国国务卿鲁比奥和战争部长赫格塞斯都避开对伊朗进行政权更迭的言论，而是强调美国专注于确保伊朗的核计划永久摧毁，不再拥有攻击以色列、阿拉伯邻国，甚至可在未来攻击美国的导弹能力。

伊朗拥有9200万人口，几乎是委内瑞拉的三倍，而且伊朗政府是由神权政治和伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队掌控。但特朗普反复提起美国迅速推翻委内瑞总统马杜罗的军事行动模式，一直拒绝接受伊朗和委内瑞拉在各方面截然不同的说法。

特朗普6日接受美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）的简短电话采访时说：“这很容易办到。就像委内瑞拉一样。”他表示并不关注伊朗是否会选出一个民主政府，并表示愿意与温和的什叶宗教派袖合作。

特朗普说：“我不介意宗教领袖，我与很多宗教领袖有过接触。”

特朗普说，只要他们“公平”对待以色列和美国，他愿意保留伊朗的神权政府。

California Rep. Darrell Issa to retire, endorses Jim Desmond to succeed him

Published [March 6, 2026 9:06pm EST]

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., will retire at the end of his current term and is backing San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond to succeed him, he confirmed to Fox News on Friday.

Issa’s seat is in California’s newly redrawn 48th District, which has been reshaped to favor Democrats under the state’s Prop 50.

“Today I’m announcing my enthusiastic endorsement of Supervisor Jim Desmond for Congress — to represent California’s new 48th district,” Issa told Fox News. “Jim is not only a personal friend, he’s a true patriot, a Navy veteran, a successful businessman, and has a 20-year record of public service. He understands this community, was born and raised here, and will make a terrific Congressman.”

Representative Darrell Issa, a Republican from California, speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, March 4, 2026.(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Issa said stepping down after 25 years in Congress — and another 25 in business — was not an easy decision.

“First, we built the right campaign infrastructure, support has been overwhelming — including from President Trump — and our polling was unmistakable: We would win this race,” he said. “But after a quarter-century in Congress — and before that, a quarter-century in business — it’s the right time for a new chapter and new challenges.”

Among his recent efforts, Issa pointed to securing the Congressional Medal of Honor for retired Navy Capt. Royce Williams, crediting President Trump with making the award possible.

“For a decade, my team and I waged a nonstop fight for Royce, and we were turned down on his behalf more times than I can remember,” he said. “But that all changed this year. President Trump made Royce’s award possible, and when I witnessed the First Lady place the Medal of Honor on my hero, it was more than just a job done. It felt like a career accomplishment.”

CALIFORNIA GOP REP MAKES RE-ELECTION DECISION AFTER CONSIDERING RUNNING IN TEXAS: SOURCE

Representative Darrell Issa, a Republican from California, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, U.S., on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022.(Tristan Wheelock/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Issa said he will remain focused on serving through 2026.

“There is still work to be done throughout 2026 both in Washington and my beloved current 48th District — and as many days that remain, I’ll dedicate each one of them to the people I serve and the indispensable nation I have sworn to protect as a soldier in the Army and as a proud and grateful Member of the People’s House of Representatives,” he said.

In a phone interview with Fox News, Issa also argued Congress has “diminished itself,” citing stagnant pay and the growing influence of outside money in elections.

“They have really, unfortunately, allowed outside money to exceed inside money in elections,” he said. “… And more people live and die with social media rather than substance, so, I’m hoping that there’s a pendulum there. You know, some of only Congress can change.”

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U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) speaks to the media during a news conference May 28, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.(Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) praised Issa’s tenure.

“We are grateful for Congressman Darrell Issa’s decades of dedicated service to the people of California and our nation,” NRCC Spokesman Christian Martinez told Fox News. “Throughout his career, he has embodied the spirit of public service, championed our military, and fought tirelessly for a stronger America.”

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“We are optimistic that this district will continue to be represented by a Republican who will stand for common sense and reject the radical agenda and chaos that progressive Marni von Wilpert and socialist Ammar Campa-Najjar would bring.”

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