艾米丽·布卢门塔尔（Emily Blumenthal）是《每日电讯报》夜间编辑部制片人，常驻旧金山。自2024年加入该报以来，她报道了多起重大国际新闻，包括中东和乌克兰战争、爱泼斯坦档案的解密以及针对唐纳德·特朗普的暗杀未遂事件。她此前曾在美国有线电视新闻网工作。可以通过电子邮件 emily.blumenthal@telegraph.co.uk 或在X平台 @emblumenthal 联系艾米丽。
Emily Blumenthal is a producer on The Telegraph’s overnight desk, based in San Francisco. Since joining the newspaper in 2024, she has covered major international stories including wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, the release of the Epstein files and an assassination attempt against Donald Trump. She previously worked at CNN. Emily can be contacted at emily.blumenthal@telegraph.co.uk or on X @emblumenthal.
英国夏令时上午5点23分，美国情报部门发现，伊朗“大幅增加了”杀害中东地区美国外交官和官员的企图。
5:23am BST Iran has “substantially increased” attempts to kill American diplomats and officials in the Middle East, US intelligence has found.
美国国家情报总监杰伊·克莱顿致国务卿马尔科·鲁比奥的一份未解密备忘录警告称，其中一些“致命的谋划工作”已进入“高级阶段”。
An unclassified memo from Jay Clayton, the US director of national intelligence, to Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, warned that some of the “lethal plotting efforts” had reached “advanced stages”.
美国官员向最先获取这份单页备忘录的Axios网站透露，正是这项情报促使美国于周三撤离了其驻沙特阿拉伯大使馆及数个领事馆的非必要员工及其家属。
US officials told Axios, which first obtained the one-page memo, that the intelligence spurred the US to withdraw non-essential staff and their families from its embassy and several consulates in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
美国国务院援引来自伊朗和胡塞武装的威胁宣布，还将缩减驻约旦、黎巴嫩、卡塔尔和阿拉伯联合酋长国大使馆的人员编制，但与沙特阿拉伯不同的是，外交官将不会被强制离开。
Citing the threats from Iran and the Houthis, the US state department announced it would also reduce staffing at embassies in Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, but unlike in Saudi Arabia, diplomats would not be required to leave.
美国国家情报总监杰伊·克莱顿提出尽可能将涉密情报解密，以便广泛分享。该便条暗示许多官员可能并不知道自己身处危险之中，并指出关于德黑兰计划的“某些情报和分析”与“比目前获准接收此信息的人数更多的人有关”。
Jay Clayton, the US director of national intelligence, offered to downgrade as much of the intelligence as possible so it could be shared widely Suggesting that many officials may not have had knowledge that they could be in danger, the note said “certain intelligence and analysis” about Tehran’s plans was “relevant to more individuals than are currently cleared to receive this information”.
该备忘录除指出“中东及某些其他国家的美国政府官员”外，并未具体指明目标或其所在地。
The memo did not identify specific targets or their location beyond “US government officials in the Middle East and certain other countries”.
克莱顿先生表示，他将尽可能将情报解密，以便兼任国家安全顾问的鲁比奥先生能够将其分享给潜在面临风险的美国国务院人员。
Mr Clayton said he would downgrade as much of the intelligence as possible so that Mr Rubio, who is also the national security adviser, could share it with US state department personnel who were potentially at risk.
胡塞武装袭击的增加加剧了人们对地区战争的担忧，该叛军组织对沙特阿拉伯民用基础设施的致命袭击不断升级。官员们还认为，这个得到伊朗支持的叛军组织可能会将其攻势扩大到该地区的其他国家。
A rise in Houthi attacks has heightened fears of a regional war, with the rebel group mounting increasingly deadly assaults on civilian infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. Officials also believe the Iran-backed rebel group could broaden its offensive to other countries in the region.
两国已起草计划，准备在11月的中期选举后对能源、核及导弹基础设施发动一波短暂而密集的打击行动，其目标是在发动战争六个月后推翻该政权——这场战争在第一天就导致最高领袖阿亚图拉·阿里·哈梅内伊丧生。
The two countries have drafted plans for a short and intensive wave of strikes on energy, nuclear and missile infrastructure after the Midterms in November, with the goal of unseating the regime six months after launching the war that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on its first day.
唐纳德·特朗普的支持率已降至31%的历史新低，他一直不愿在中期选举前采取军事行动。由于霍尔木兹海峡关闭导致汽油价格高企，他的政党很可能会在民主党的冲击下惨败。
Donald Trump, whose popularity rating has reached a record low of 31 per cent, has been reluctant to take military action before the midterm elections. His party is likely to take a heavy beating by the Democrats amid high petrol prices caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
然而，在周二的以色列选举中面临惨败可能的本雅明·内塔尼亚胡一直向美国总统施压，要求其发动打击，以此作为提高选民支持率的最后挣扎。
However, Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces probable defeat in Israeli elections on Tuesday, has been pressuring the US president to launch strikes in a last-ditch effort to increase voter support.
周一，美国和以色列在伊朗边境附近模拟了打击行动，出动了数十架战机进行演习，其飞行路线与潜在袭击路线一致。
On Monday, the US and Israel simulated strikes near Iran’s border, deploying dozens of fighter jets in an exercise that followed a flight path consistent with a potential attack.
*尽管特朗普先生有所保留，但美国驻土耳其大使汤姆·巴拉克表示，打击行动“绝对”最早可能在本周末开始。
Despite Mr Trump’s reservations, Tom Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkey, said strikes could “absolutely” begin as soon as this weekend.
在支持共和党候选人的集会上，美国总统曾多次放出重新发动攻势的风声。
At rallies to support Republican candidates, the US president has repeatedly floated the prospect of a renewed offensive.
唐纳德·特朗普在佛罗里达州的一场集会上表示，美国可以“再搞一次狂怒行动”。特朗普先生周五在佛罗里达州的一次演讲中表示，美国“可能会再搞一次小规模的狂怒行动，或者（伊朗人）会同意（达成协议）”，他指的是美军对伊朗战争的代号。
Donald Trump said during a rally in Florida that the US could ‘do another little Operation Epic Fury’ During a speech in Florida on Friday, Mr Trump said the US “may do another little Operation Epic Fury, or [the Iranians] will agree [to a deal]”, referring to the US military’s name for the war in Iran.
他补充说：“如果他们聪明的话，就会直接说‘我们来谈正事吧’，但我怀疑他们不会这么做，因为他们可能不够聪明。”随着和平谈判陷入僵局，美国官员对这场战争能够迅速结束变得越来越悲观。特朗普先生最初声称这场战争将在2月底开始后的六周内结束。
He added: “If they’re smart, they will just say, ‘let’s get down to business’, but I doubt they will do that because perhaps they’re not smart.”As peace talks reach a stalemate, US officials have grown increasingly pessimistic about a quick end to the war, which Mr Trump initially claimed would be over within six weeks of its start at the end of February.
美国常驻联合国大使迈克·沃尔茨对《金融时报》表示，他预计这场战争可能会再持续一年。
Mike Waltz, the US ambassador to the UN, told the Financial Times that he predicted the war could last for another year.