据报道，以色列已下令其军方提高戒备，为可能对伊朗实施打击做准备，与此同时德黑兰警告称，如果遭到攻击，将把战争扩大到该地区以外。
Israel has reportedly ordered its military to step up readiness for possible strikes on Iran as Tehran warned it would expand the war beyond the region if attacked.
以色列媒体周三晚间报道，以色列安全内阁在总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡主持下，已下令军方加强对伊朗发动攻击的准备工作。
Israel’s security cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has ordered the military to step up preparations for an attack on Iran, Israeli media reported on Wednesday evening.
公共广播机构KAN报道称：“安全内阁向以色列军方发布的指令可能导致其采取可能引发战争的行动。”
“The directives issued by the security cabinet to the Israeli military could lead it to carry out activities that could trigger a war,” public broadcaster KAN reported.
KAN表示，这些指令是在以色列反对党领袖加迪·艾森科特发表声明后公开的，他在声明中告诉以看守身份担任总理的内塔尼亚胡，在下一届政府组建之前，不要在“没有直接且迫在眉睫的威胁”的情况下部署军队。
KAN said the directives were made public after Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot issued a statement telling Netanyahu – who is serving as prime minister in a caretaker capacity – not to deploy the military “without a direct and immediate threat” until the next government is formed.
在内塔尼亚胡执政联盟于10月大选中失去议会多数席位后，以色列总统伊萨克·赫尔佐格周末曾提议让艾森科特组建新政府。
Eisenkot was offered the chance to form a new government by Israeli President Isaac Herzog over the weekend after Netanyahu’s ruling coalition lost its parliamentary majority in the October elections.
如果反对派成功组建政府，内塔尼亚胡将面临失去权力的境地，他坚持认为，对伊朗的战争将持续到德黑兰政府垮台为止。“从西亚到欧洲”关于以色列准备攻击伊朗的报道，正值为避免进一步冲突并寻求外交解决方案而进行的激烈外交努力之际。
Netanyahu, who is on the cusp of losing power if the opposition succeeds in forming a government, has been adamant that the war on Iran will continue until the collapse of the government in Tehran. ‘From West Asia to Europe’Reports of Israeli preparations to attack Iran come at a time of intense diplomatic efforts to avert further conflict and reach a diplomatic solution.
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普表示，如果卡塔尔提供的外交渠道无法促成华盛顿与德黑兰达成协议，他准备重新发动战争。
US President Donald Trump has said that he is prepared to return to waging war if a diplomatic track offered by Qatar fails to facilitate a deal between Washington and Tehran.
伊朗最高国家安全委员会秘书穆赫辛·礼萨伊 [资料图：Mohammed Salem/路透社] 伊朗安全事务负责人穆赫辛·礼萨伊在社交媒体发文称：“如果美国对伊朗发动另一场战争，从西亚到欧洲，每一个参与侵略的军事基地都将成为伊朗致命打击的合法目标。”他补充道：“没有安全距离。没有安全避难所。没有豁免权。”
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei [File: Mohammed Salem/Reuters] Iran’s security chief Mohsen Rezaei said in a social media post, “If the US launches another war against Iran, every military base involved in the aggression, from West Asia to Europe, will be a legitimate target for Iran’s lethal strikes.”“No safe distance. No safe haven. No immunity,” he added.
Al Jazeera的记者Resul Serdar Atas在德黑兰报道说，伊朗领导层正在讨论是否任命激进派的Rezaei为伊朗新任首席谈判官。
Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar Atas, reporting from Tehran, said the Iranian leadership has been discussing whether or not to appoint the hawkish Rezaei as Iran’s new chief negotiator.
“在德黑兰，有人指出，如果这种现状持续很长时间，伊朗将不再等待，可能采取先发制人行动，”Atas说，并补充称，当前的首席谈判官、伊朗议长穆罕默德·巴格尔·哈利法已表示，伊朗将通过“可持续威慑”在谈判失败后继续坚持“既无战事亦无和平”的立场。
“In Tehran, there have been voices saying that if this status quo goes on for quite a long period of time, Iran will not wait and might take pre-emptive action,” Atas said, adding that the current lead negotiator, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has commented on Iran’s determination to move beyond this state of “no war, no peace” through “sustainable deterrence” if negotiations fail.
Ghalibaf在周三发布于Al Jazeera的独家访谈中表示，霍尔木兹海峡将“永远回不到美国以色列战争前的状态”，并称“球现在在美国球场”。“阻碍协议达成的因素是我们对美国缺乏信任，”他说。‘胜利的姿态’在华盛顿特区，Al Jazeera的记者Alan Fisher表示，特朗普仍在为何与伊朗开战辩护，并称这场冲突很快将结束。
Ghalibaf told Al Jazeera in an exclusive interview published on Wednesday that the Strait of Hormuz will “never return” to its status prior to the US-Israel war on Iran and that “the ball is now in the American court”. “What stands in the way of an agreement is our lack of trust in the United States,” he said. ‘Position to declare victory’In Washington, DC, Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher said Trump is still justifying why he went to war with Iran and saying that it would end soon.
美国国务卿马可·鲁比奥也表示，特朗普政府对伊朗的经济压力行动已取得如此显著成效，以致不再需要大规模军事行动。
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also said the Trump administration’s economic pressure campaign against Iran is proving so effective that a resumption of large-scale military operations is unnecessary.
“过去几天，特朗普和鲁比奥都明确表示，大规模军事参与已结束。除非伊朗越过红线，否则不存在重新启动的必要，”Fisher说，并补充称，“白宫的关键问题是始终保持特朗普能够宣告胜利的姿态”。“但很明显，在背景中正在就达成和解进行一些动作，”他说。
“Over the last few days, both the president and Marco Rubio have said, effectively, that large-scale military engagement is over. They do not see the need to restart it unless Iran crosses red lines,” Fisher said, adding that the “key issue for this White House is always to be in a position where Trump can declare victory”. “But it is clear there is some movement behind the scenes as far as negotiating a settlement,” he said.
尽管推动和平，美国军队“仍然全天候工作”以保持霍尔木兹海峡对商业航运畅通，严格执行对伊朗的“铁腕”海军封锁，据美国中央司令部称。
Despite the push for peace, US forces “continue to work around the clock” in keeping the Strait of Hormuz open for commercial shipping, strictly enforcing the “ironclad” naval blockade against Iran, according to the US Central Command.
与此同时，周三油价上涨约1%，此前德黑兰拒绝了美国提出的将其60%浓缩铀库存转移至第三国的提议。
Meanwhile, oil prices rose about 1 percent on Wednesday after Tehran rejected a US proposal to transfer its stockpile of 60 percent enriched uranium to a third country.
布兰特期货上涨1.27美元，涨幅为1.39%，收于92.76美元，而美国西得克萨斯中质原油上涨49美分，涨幅为0.57%，收于86.53美元。
Brent futures settled $1.27, or 1.39 percent, higher at $92.76, while US West Texas Intermediate crude gained 49 cents, or 0.57 percent, to $86.53.
在上一交易时段，油价在美方官员淡化对伊朗进一步军事打击的必要性后，最初下跌了每桶超过3美元。
In the previous session, oil prices had initially fallen by more than $3 a barrel after US officials played down the need for further military strikes against Iran.
随后，当一名伊朗官员表示两方之间没有进行谈判时，油价部分回吐了跌幅。
Prices later pared some losses when an Iranian official said no talks were taking place between the two sides.