本周24小时内，伊朗武装部队在霍尔木兹海峡外袭击了两艘商用油轮，这似乎标志着其攻击范围已有意扩大至海峡以外。与此同时，伊朗官员再次向美国发出新一轮警告。英国海事贸易运营机构（UKMTO）表示，周三有多枚弹体击中了悬挂安提瓜和巴布达国旗的石油和化学品运输船“Acers”号，事发地点位于卡塔尔马迪纳特·阿什·沙马勒以北51海里处，并报告有人员伤亡。
Iran's armed forces struck two commercial tankers outside the Strait of Hormuz within 24 hours this week, in what appeared to be a deliberate expansion of attacks beyond the strait, as Iranian officials issued a fresh wave of warnings against the United States. The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said several projectiles hit the oil and chemical tanker Acers, flagged in Antigua and Barbuda, 51 nautical miles north of Madinat ash Shamal in Qatar on Wednesday. Casualties were reported.
海事情报公司Vanguard确认了该船只的身份，并表示其正驶向霍尔木兹海峡。这是该区域六个月多来的首次袭击。周四另一起事件中，Vanguard报告称，阿曼湾富查伊拉附近约40公里处的一艘油轮发生火灾，该公司认为该船很可能是悬挂马绍尔群岛国旗的“Dhalgout”号。UKMTO并未记录此次事件，火灾原因也尚未明确。
Maritime intelligence firm Vanguard identified the vessel and said it was heading toward the Strait of Hormuz. It was the first attack in that area in more than six months. In a separate incident on Thursday, Vanguard reported a fire on a tanker some 40 kilometres off Fujairah in the Gulf of Oman, which it identified as likely the Marshall Islands-flagged Dhalgout. The UKMTO had not recorded the incident, and the cause of the fire was not immediately clear.
美国国家航空航天局（NASA）的FIRMS火灾探测系统证实了此次火灾，当时包括两架KC-46加油机、一架KC-135加油机、一架P-8A海上巡逻机以及数架直升机在内的美国军用飞机正在该区域上空。伊朗及与伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）相关的媒体均未正式宣称对这两起袭击负责。与IRGC相关的媒体则暗示，德黑兰已将“针对违反霍尔木兹海峡内伊朗法律法规的商船的作战范围扩展至海峡以外的海域”。
NASA's FIRMS fire-detection system confirmed the blaze, and US military aircraft — including two KC-46 tankers, a KC-135, a P-8A maritime patrol aircraft and several helicopters — were over the area at the time. Iran and media affiliated with the IRGC did not officially claim responsibility for either attack. IRGC-affiliated outlets implicitly suggested that Tehran had "extended the scope of its operations against commercial vessels that violate Iranian laws and regulations in the Strait of Hormuz to waters beyond the strait."
这两起事件均发生在霍尔木兹海峡之外，而全球约五分之一的石油和天然气运输通常需经过该海峡。自二月底战争爆发以来，由于伊朗和美国同时实施海上封锁，该海峡实际上已被关闭。“你们与我们之间的距离，由我们的导弹决定，”代理国防部长马吉德·伊本·奥尔-雷扎周四在X平台上发文称。“昨天是阿曼湾，今天是印度洋，明天则是猪湾。”
Both incidents fall outside the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly one-fifth of global oil and gas shipments normally pass. The strait has been effectively closed since the war began in late February, after Iran and the US imposed concurrent naval blockades." The distance between you and us is determined by our missiles," Acting Defence Minister Majid Ebn ol-Reza posted on X on Thursday." Yesterday the Gulf of Oman, today the Indian Ocean and tomorrow the Bay of Pigs.
“如果你犯了错误，你就会看到新的一组分界线，”伊本·礼萨补充道，这显然是指1961年4月美国支持的一场失败的古巴西南部军事登陆，当时的目的是推翻菲德尔·卡斯特罗的共产主义政府。
If you make a mistake, you will see a new set of dividing lines.," ol-Reza added in an apparent reference to a failed, US-backed military landing on the southwestern coast of Cuba from April 1961 aimed at overthrowing the communist government of Fidel Castro.
作为最高领袖阿亚图拉·穆杰塔巴·哈梅内伊的高级军事顾问，叶海亚·拉希姆·萨法维早些时候曾警告称，如果美国或以色列再次袭击伊朗，德黑兰可能会将战争“扩大到印度洋或其他地方”，并补充说伊朗军队已经为最坏的情况制定了应急计划。
Yahya Rahim Safavi, a senior military adviser to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, had earlier warned that if the US or Israel attacked Iran again, Tehran could extend the war "as far as the Indian Ocean or other places," adding that Iranian forces had prepared contingency plans for worst-case scenarios.
在时任伊朗国防部长阿齐兹·纳西尔扎德于2月28日（战争第一天）与其他几名军事指挥官一同身亡后，伊本·礼萨被任命为代理部长。伊朗总统马苏德·佩泽希齐扬已提名梅赫达德·阿赫拉基为正式接替人选，议会定于10月18日举行信任投票。
Ebn ol-Reza was appointed acting minister after Aziz Nasirzadeh, Iran's then defence minister, was killed on 28 February — the first day of the war — alongside several other military commanders. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has nominated Mehrdad Akhlaqi as a permanent replacement, and parliament is due to hold a confidence vote on 18 October.
伊朗军队发言人另行表示，如有必要，其军队已准备好开展先发制人的行动，以阻止他所说的“敌人的一切侵略或进攻”。
Iran's army spokesman said separately that its forces were ready to carry out pre-emptive operations, if necessary, to prevent what he described as "any aggression or attack by the enemy."
在美国内布拉斯加州的一场中期选举竞选集会上，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普为对伊朗开战的决定进行了辩护。“这是为保证世界和我们国家安全而付出的微小代价。他们可以摧毁一座城市。让他们摧毁吧。让他们摧毁洛杉矶，让他们摧毁圣迭戈，”他说。
At a midterm election campaign rally in Nebraska, US President Donald Trump defended the decision to go to war with Iran. "This is a small price to pay for keeping the world and our country safe. They can destroy a city.
周三晚上在得克萨斯州举行的另一场集会上，特朗普在受到批评后收回了这些言论。“我们保护我们自己的城市。我们绝不允许这种事情发生，”他说。
Let them destroy it. Let them destroy Los Angeles, let them destroy San Diego," he said. At a separate rally in Texas on Wednesday night, Trump walked back those remarks after criticism.
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在内布拉斯加州的一场中期选举竞选集会上为对伊朗发动战争进行了辩护，称“这是为保证世界和我们国家安全而付出的微小代价。”“他们可以摧毁一座城市。让他们摧毁吧。”
"We protect our own cities. We will not allow such a thing to happen," he said.US President Donald Trump defended the launch of war against Iran at a midterm election campaign rally in Nebraska, stating that "this is a small price to pay for keeping the world and our country safe."" They can destroy a city. Let them destroy it.
“让他们摧毁洛杉矶，让他们摧毁圣地亚哥，”特朗普说道。然而，在周三晚上于得克萨斯州发表的另一场演讲中，特朗普回应了两天前他关于伊朗可能袭击洛杉矶和圣地亚哥这一争议性言论所受到的批评。“我们会保护我们自己的城市。我们绝不允许这种事情发生，”他说。
Let them destroy Los Angeles, let them destroy San Diego," Trump said. However, in another speech in Texas on Wednesday night Trump responded to criticism of his controversial remarks two days earlier about a possible Iranian attack on Los Angeles and San Diego." We protect our own cities. We will not allow such a thing to happen," he said.