2026-04-18 06:00:09 北美东部夏令时 / 福克斯新闻频道
阿西姆·穆尼尔在担任巴基斯坦军事情报部门负责人期间，与伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队及情报机构建立了联系
作者：埃弗拉特·拉赫特 福克斯新闻
发布于2026年4月18日 美国东部夏令时上午6:00
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唐纳德·特朗普总统周五在Truth Social的一篇帖子中公开感谢了他口中巴基斯坦的“伟大总理和陆军元帅，两个人都太棒了！！！”，以此赞扬总理夏巴兹·谢里夫和巴基斯坦军方参谋长阿西姆·穆尼尔。
谢里夫很快在X平台上回应道：“我代表巴基斯坦人民、赛义德·阿西姆·穆尼尔陆军元帅，以及我本人，对您友善而亲切的话语深表感谢。”
这场公开互动为穆尼尔的崛起画上了圆满的句号，他如今已成为少数同时获得特朗普和伊朗安全机构信任的外国官员之一。
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在这张由巴基斯坦三军公共关系部发布的照片中，巴基斯坦国防部队参谋长兼陆军参谋长阿西姆·穆尼尔将军（中）、巴基斯坦海军参谋长纳维德·阿什拉夫海军上将（左）以及巴基斯坦空军参谋长齐赫尔·艾哈迈德·巴伯空军元帅，于2025年12月8日周一在巴基斯坦拉瓦尔品第的联合军事指挥总部出席仪仗队仪式。（巴基斯坦三军公共关系部 via 美联社）
据巴基斯坦和伊朗方面的报道，穆尼尔近期成为美伊最新一轮升级冲突后首位访问伊朗的外国军事领导人。他身着全套军装抵达，受到伊朗外交部长阿巴斯·阿拉格奇的热情迎接，并与伊朗高级军事官员举行了会谈。
已退役的巴基斯坦将军艾哈迈德·赛义德告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，数月来，穆尼尔一直充当着华盛顿和德黑兰之间的非正式沟通渠道，当时特朗普政府正试图谈判结束冲突、限制伊朗核计划以及解除波斯湾的海上封锁。
几乎没有外国官员能同时与特朗普和伊朗军方高层保持如此密切的联系。
这引发了一个引人深思的问题：同一个人是如何同时与特朗普和伊朗一些最有权势的指挥官建立密切关系的？
赛义德表示，他与穆尼尔相识多年，他告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，穆尼尔在2016年至2017年担任巴基斯坦军事情报总局局长期间，就开始与伊朗建立联系。
“他一直与伊朗领导层、情报界以及伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）打交道，”赛义德说道。
据赛义德透露，穆尼尔不仅与伊斯兰革命卫队建立了联系，还与伊朗正规军和情报机构建立了关系。赛义德称，穆吉尔长期与前伊斯兰革命卫队圣城旅指挥官卡西姆·苏莱曼尼（2020年在美国空袭中身亡）、指挥官侯赛因·萨拉米（2025年6月在以色列空袭中身亡）以及其他伊朗军事人物保持接触。
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几乎没有外国官员能同时与特朗普和伊朗军方高层保持如此密切的联系。（伊朗总统府/供图/安纳多卢通讯社 via 盖蒂图片社）
“他至今仍是国际政坛上的关键人物，与伊朗情报界、军方高层、伊朗外交使团以及政治领导层都有着私人互动和私人关系，”赛义德说道。
这种长期的关系似乎解释了为何伊朗会如此热情地接待他，即便他仍与特朗普及其团队保持直接联系。
美国国防民主基金会的比尔·罗吉奥告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“特朗普不应信任巴基斯坦人。巴基斯坦在阿富汗问题上一直是背信弃义的‘盟友’，一边支持塔利班，一边假装是我们的朋友。穆尼尔与伊斯兰革命卫队的联系对特朗普政府来说应该是一个巨大的危险信号。”
穆尼尔与特朗普的关系可追溯至2025年5月的印巴危机。穆吉尔在帮助缓和对峙局面方面发挥了关键作用，此后巴基斯坦正式提名特朗普角逐诺贝尔和平奖，巴基斯坦分析人士普遍认为这一提名是在穆尼尔的授意下提出的。
巴基斯坦分析师拉扎·鲁米告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，穆尼尔能获得特朗普的青睐并不令人意外。
“特朗普一直青睐强势、果断的领导人，”鲁米说道。“穆尼尔符合这一模式，他是一个集权式的权威人物，能够达成目标。”
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2026年4月11日，伊朗议会议长穆罕默德·巴盖尔·加利巴夫和外交部长阿巴斯·阿拉格奇抵达巴基斯坦拉瓦尔品第的努尔汗空军基地，巴基斯坦外交部长伊shaq Dar和陆军参谋长阿西姆·穆尼尔陆军元帅前往迎接。（巴基斯坦外交部/美联社）
鲁米将穆尼尔描述为“一位纪律严明、以机构为先的领导人，高度重视秩序、层级和战略清晰度”。
“与更多公开富有魅力的军事人物不同，他的风格相对低调，这种风格是由情报工作和作战经验塑造的，而非刻意的政治表态，”鲁米说道。
穆尼尔的背景有助于解释他的行事风格和影响力。
据巴基斯坦Geo新闻报道，穆尼尔曾就读于日本富士学校、奎塔指挥与参谋学院、吉隆坡马来西亚武装部队学院以及巴基斯坦国防大学，并在该校获得公共政策与战略安全管理硕士学位。穆尼尔是巴基斯坦首位获得“荣誉之剑”的陆军参谋长，这是军校学员所能获得的最高荣誉。该媒体还称他是一名狂热的读者、旅行者和体育爱好者。
穆尼尔还是一名哈菲兹·古兰经，即他已完整背诵整部《古兰经》。
穆尼尔曾先后担任巴基斯坦军事情报局和三军情报局负责人，多年来负责监管巴基斯坦最敏感的地区关系，包括与伊朗、阿富汗和印度的关系。
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2026年4月12日，美国副总统JD·万斯在伊斯兰堡与巴基斯坦副总理兼外交部长穆罕默德·伊shaq Dar握手，此前双方就伊朗问题进行了会谈。巴基斯坦内政部长莫辛·纳克维、国防部队参谋长兼陆军参谋长阿西姆·穆尼尔陆军元帅以及美国大使馆临时代办娜塔莉·A·贝克在万斯准备登上空军二号时在一旁注视。（杰奎琳·马丁/美联社）
2025年，在印巴危机结束后，他被晋升为陆军元帅，这是自前军事统治者阿尤布·汗以来首位获得该军衔的巴基斯坦军官。
巴基斯坦官员表示，同年晚些时候，他还被授予新设立的国防部队参谋长一职，进一步巩固了其凌驾于各军种之上的权威。
穆尼尔极少接受采访，但他的演讲透露了其世界观。
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穆尼尔曾先后担任巴基斯坦军事情报局和三军情报局负责人，多年来负责监管巴基斯坦最敏感的地区关系，包括与伊朗、阿富汗和印度的关系。（伊朗总统府/供图/安纳多卢通讯社 via 盖蒂图片社）
2024年11月在伊斯兰堡举行的玛格拉对话中，他警告称“缺乏适当的言论自由监管规定，正导致全球社会道德价值观的沦丧”。
这一言论反映了他对秩序、纪律和集权的广泛重视。
鲁米表示，穆尼尔秉持“一种基于交易的、以国家为中心的世界观，而非意识形态化的世界观”。
然而批评人士认为，他的崛起是以巴基斯坦的民主为代价的。
据《卫报》报道，穆尼尔自2022年担任陆军参谋长以来，将大量精力投入国内政治，包括批评人士所称的对政治反对派的镇压以及前所未有的军事权力集中。该报还报道称，美伊之间的关键谈判并非在巴基斯坦首都伊斯兰堡进行，而是在军方总部拉瓦尔品第协调的。
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2025年11月13日，在巴基斯坦与阿富汗边境附近的南瓦济里斯坦地区的瓦纳军事学院遭遇袭击后，印有巴基斯坦陆军元帅兼陆军参谋长阿西姆·穆尼尔肖像的破损相框挂在墙上。（阿米尔·库雷希/法新社 via 盖蒂图片社）
批评人士表示，这反映了一个更广泛的现实：巴基斯坦的外交政策正日益由军方而非民选政府主导。
鲁米称，穆尼尔的崛起反映了“巴基斯坦军方日益凌驾于文职领导层之上”。
随着当前谈判的继续，许多事情似乎都取决于穆尼尔。赛义德表示，这是因为穆尼尔多年来一直在双方之间建立信任，现在不太可能半途而废。
“据我对我们这位陆军元帅的了解，以及我个人对他的认识，他非常执着。他不会放弃，”赛义德说道。
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Trump’s favorite field marshal: Who is Pakistan’s powerful army chief Asim Munir with deep intel ties
2026-04-18 06:00:09 EDT / Fox News
Asim Munir built ties with Iran’s IRGC and intelligence apparatus while serving as Pakistan’s military intelligence chief
By Efrat Lachter Fox News
Published April 18, 2026 6:00am EDT
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President Donald Trump publicly thanked what he called Pakistan’s “great prime minister and field marshal, two fantastic people!!!” in a Truth Social post Friday praising Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan’s military chief, Asim Munir.
Sharif quickly responded on X, “On behalf of the people of Pakistan, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, and on my behalf, I express my deep and profound appreciation for your kind and gracious words.”
The public exchange capped a remarkable rise for Munir, who has become one of the few foreign officials trusted both by Trump and by Iran’s security establishment.
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In this photo released by the Inter Services Public Relations, Pakistan’s Chief of Defense Forces and Army Chief Gen. Asim Munir, center, Pakistan Naval Chief Admiral Naveed Ashraf, left, and Pakistan Air Force Chief Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Babar attend a guard of honor ceremony at the joint military command headquarters in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025.(Inter Services Public Relations via AP)
Munir recently became the first foreign military leader to visit Iran since the latest escalation between the United States and Iran, according to Pakistani and Iranian reports. Arriving in full military uniform, he was warmly greeted by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and held meetings with senior Iranian military officials.
Retired Pakistani Gen. Ahmed Saeed told Fox News Digital that Munir has for months served as an informal back channel between Washington and Tehran, Iran, as the Trump administration tries to negotiate an end to the conflict, Iran’s nuclear program and the naval blockade in the Persian Gulf.
Few foreign figures appear to have closer ties both to Trump and to Iran’s military hierarchy.
That has raised a striking question: How did the same man become close both to Trump and to some of Iran’s most powerful commanders?
Saeed, who said he has known Munir personally for years, told Fox News Digital that Munir began building ties with Iran while serving as Pakistan’s director general of military intelligence in 2016 and 2017.
“He has been interacting with the leadership. He has been interacting with the intelligence community. He has been interacting with the IRGC,” or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Saeed said.
According to Saeed, Munir built ties not only with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps but also with Iran’s regular army and intelligence apparatus. Saeed said Munir had longstanding contact with former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. strike in 2020, commander Hossein Salami, who was killed in an Israeli strike in June 2025, and other Iranian military figures.
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Few foreign figures appear to have closer ties both to Trump and to Iran’s military hierarchy.(Iranian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“He continues to be a figure internationally who has personal interactions, a personal equation in the intelligence community in Iran, in the military hierarchy in Iran, in the diplomatic corps of Iran and also on the side of the political leadership,” Saeed said.
That longstanding relationship appears to explain why Iran welcomed him so warmly, even as he remains in direct contact with Trump and his team.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Bill Roggio told Fox News Digital that, “Trump should not trust the Pakistanis. Pakistan was a perfidious ‘ally’ in Afghanistan, backing the Taliban while pretending to be our friends. Munir’s ties to the IRGC should be a massive red flag for the Trump admin.”
Munir’s relationship with Trump dates back to the India–Pakistan crisis of May 2025. Munir played a key role in helping de-escalate the confrontation, and afterward Pakistan formally nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, a move widely viewed by Pakistani analysts as encouraged by Munir.
Pakistan’s Asim Munir has become one of the few foreign officials trusted by both President Donald Trump and Iran’s security establishment, according to Pakistani analysts and officials.(Jacquelyn Martin / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
Since then, Trump repeatedly has praised him. Trump has called Munir an “exceptional man,” a “great fighter” and “my favorite field marshal.”
Pakistani officials and media reports say the two men now speak directly.
Pakistani analyst Raza Rumi told Fox News Digital that Munir’s appeal to Trump is not surprising.
“Trump has long shown a preference for strong, decisive leaders,” Rumi said. “Munir fits that mold as a centralized authority figure who can deliver outcomes.”
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Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi were greeted by Pakistan Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Army Chief Field Marshal Gen. Asim Munir upon their arrival at Nur Khan airbase in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, April 11, 2026.(Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs/AP)
Rumi described Munir as “a disciplined, institution-first leader with a strong emphasis on order, hierarchy and strategic clarity.”
“Unlike more publicly charismatic military figures, his style is relatively understated, shaped by intelligence work and operational experience rather than overt political signaling,” Rumi said.
Munir’s background helps explain both his style and his influence.
Munir studied at the Fuji School in Japan, the Command and Staff College in Quetta, the Malaysian Armed Forces College in Kuala Lumpur, and Pakistan’s National Defence University, where he earned an master of philosophy degree n public policy and strategic security management, according to Pakistan’s Geo News. Munir was the first army chief in Pakistan to receive the Sword of Honour, the military’s highest distinction for a cadet. The outlet also described him as an avid reader, traveler and sportsman.
Munir is also a Hafiz-e-Quran, meaning he has memorized the entire Quran by heart.
A former head of both Pakistan’s Military Intelligence and Inter-Services Intelligence agencies, Munir spent years overseeing Pakistan’s most sensitive regional relationships, including with Iran, Afghanistan and India.
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Vice President JD Vance shakes hands with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar in Islamabad on April 12, 2026, after talks on Iran. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, Chief of Defence Forces Chief of Army Staff Field Marshall Asim Munir, and U.S. Embassy Charge d’Affaires Natalie A. Baker look on as Vance prepares to board Air Force Two.(Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
In 2025, after the India-Pakistan crisis, he was elevated to field marshal, the first Pakistani officer to hold the rank since former military ruler Ayub Khan.
Pakistani officials say that later that year, he also was given the newly created title of chief of defense forces, further cementing his authority above the country’s military branches.
Munir rarely gives interviews, but his speeches offer clues to his worldview.
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A former head of both Pakistan’s Military Intelligence and Inter-Services Intelligence agencies, Munir spent years overseeing Pakistan’s most sensitive regional relationships, including with Iran, Afghanistan and India.(Iranian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
At the Margalla Dialogue in Islamabad in November 2024, he warned that “absence of proper regulations for freedom of expression is leading to the deterioration of moral values in societies worldwide.”
The remark reflected a broader emphasis on order, discipline and centralized authority.
Rumi said Munir operates from “a transactional, state-centric worldview rather than an ideological one.”
Yet critics argue that his rise has come at a cost to Pakistan’s democracy.
After becoming army chief in 2022, Munir focused heavily on domestic politics, including what critics described as a crackdown on political opposition and an unprecedented concentration of military power, according to The Guardian, which reported that key negotiations with the United States and Iran have been coordinated not from Islamabad, Pakistan’s civilian capital, but from Rawalpindi, the headquarters of the military.
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A broken frame of Pakistan’s field marshal and army chief, Asim Munir, hangs on the wall after an attack at the Cadet College Wana, a military-linked school, in the South Waziristan district near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, Nov. 13, 2025.(Aamir Qureshi / AFP via Getty Images)
Critics say that reflects a broader reality: Pakistan’s foreign policy is increasingly being run by the army rather than the elected government.
Rumi said Munir’s rise reflects “the military increasingly eclipsing civilian leadership in Pakistan.”
As the current negotiations continue, much appears to rest on Munir. Saeed said that is because Munir has spent years building trust on both sides and is unlikely to stop now.
“Knowing our field marshal, and from my own personal knowledge of him, he is relentless. He would not give up,” Saeed said.
Efrat Lachter is a foreign correspondent for Fox News Digital covering international affairs and the United Nations. Follow her on X @efratlachter. Stories can be sent to efrat.lachter@fox.com.