美国能源部长克里斯·赖特周日表示，由于对高油价的担忧，与伊朗的战争将在未来几周内结束，甚至可能更早。
“我认为这场冲突肯定会在未来几周内结束，”赖特告诉美国广播公司新闻的“本周”联合主播玛莎·拉达茨。“可能会更快，但冲突将在未来几周内结束。”
莱特的评论是在美国人看到由于战争导致的越来越高的油价的时候发表的。伊朗保持的一个主要优势是其对霍尔木兹海峡的控制，这是连接波斯湾和阿曼湾的重要通道，全球约20%的石油供应都要经过这里。伊朗实际上关闭了该海峡，导致原油价格飙升，并导致美国天然气价格上涨。
能源部长克里斯·赖特于2026年3月15日出现在ABC新闻的“本周”节目中。
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根据GasBuddy的数据，截至周日上午，自战争开始以来，汽油价格平均每加仑上涨了76美分，这是短时间内的大幅上涨。赖特说，美国人应该期待天然气价格在未来几周内下降，但不能保证。
“战争中没有任何保证，”赖特说。“这是通往一个好得多的地方的短期痛苦。”
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尽管如此，赖特指出，天然气价格低于拜登政府执政期间2022年创下的历史新高，他认为推动这些价格上涨的形势——美国对伊朗的军事行动——将导致政策上的重大变化。
“在拜登执政期间，我们有5美元的汽油，”赖特说。“我们希望这次我们不会达到这一步，但至少汽油价格的上涨是为了某种将永远改变世界地缘政治局势的东西。”
为了缓和天然气价格，莱特曾告诉美国消费者新闻与商业频道，美国海军“很有可能”在本月底前护送油轮通过海峡，但它没有准备这样做。唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)总统周六在社交媒体平台上发布消息称，其他国家将派遣军舰帮助开放霍尔木兹海峡，但尚不清楚哪些国家将参与其中，以及它们是否都同意以某种方式合作。
当Raddatz问及哪些国家将派遣军舰时，Wright没有证实具体细节，但表示亚洲许多国家依赖海峡的石油，因此有兴趣帮助开放海峡。
“世界上所有国家都依赖来自霍尔木兹海峡的产品。中国名列榜首。日本、朝鲜和所有亚洲国家都是霍尔木兹海峡的能源流向地。“因此，当然，让世界各国组成一个广泛的联盟来努力重新开放海峡是非常合乎逻辑的。”
特朗普政府有没有计划封锁海峡?
民主党人提出的一项指控是，特朗普政府没有为霍尔木兹海峡的关闭或它将如何扰乱石油市场和颠覆供应链做好充分的计划。“唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)怎么没有预见到这一点?”参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默(Chuck Schumer)周四在参议院问道。
赖特周日指责舒默的评论，指责这位民主党领袖“可笑的天真或”...只是不真诚，这种可能性更大。”莱特说，特朗普政府很清楚全球石油贸易会因为战争而中断。
“当然，精心策划了霍尔木兹海峡可能发生的事情，如何处理——处理那件事。我们的参谋长联席会议主席凯恩将军在很多方面都是出了名的，但最重要的是他对所有可能发生的情况都进行了绝对细致的规划。
在随后的采访中，他说政府知道水路将会“暂时中断”。
“我们非常清楚，非常清楚我们会有短期的中断...这将导致美国人的价格略有上涨，”他说。
莱特称特朗普政府对该海峡的计划“一丝不苟”。
众议员亚当·史密斯。，出现在ABC新闻2026年3月15日的《本周》。
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国土安全部高度戒备
随着战争的进展，另一个主要担忧是战争可能对美国本土造成的威胁。对密歇根州一座犹太教堂的袭击，对纽约市长Zohran Mamdani住所的反穆斯林抗议的未遂袭击，以及对Old Dominion大学和德克萨斯州奥斯汀一家酒吧的枪击事件，是战争开始以来的一些重大袭击，但尚不清楚这些袭击是否直接由冲突引发。
众议院军事委员会最高民主党众议员亚当·史密斯周日表示，袭击并不新鲜，但美国应该做好准备
Energy Secretary Wright says war with Iran ‘will certainly’ end in next few weeks
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that the war with Iran will come to an end in the next few weeks, and possibly sooner, amid concerns about high gas prices.
"I think that this conflict will certainly come to an end in the next few weeks," Wright told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz. "Could be sooner than that, but the conflict will come to the end in the next few weeks."
Wright's comments come as Americans are seeing increasingly high gas prices as a result of the war. One major piece of leverage Iran maintains is its control over the Strait of Hormuz, a critical passageway connecting the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman through which around 20% of the world's oil supply passes through. Iran has effectively closed the strait, sending crude oil prices skyrocketing and leading to higher gas prices in the U.S.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright appears on ABC News' "This Week" on March 15, 2026.
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As of Sunday morning, the price of gas has risen 76 cents per gallon on average since the start of the war, according to GasBuddy, a sharp increase in a short amount of time. Wright said Americans should expect gas prices to come down in the next few weeks, but that there is no guarantee.
"There's no guarantees in wars at all," Wright said. "This is short-term pain to get through to a much better place."
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Still, Wright pointed out that gas prices are lower than when prices hit a record high in 2022 under the Biden administration, and he argued that the situation fueling these increases -- the U.S. military action against Iran -- will lead to a meaningful difference in policy.
"We had $5 gasoline in the middle of the Biden administration," Wright said. "We hope we don't get there this time, but at least this increase in gasoline prices is for something that's going to change the geopolitical situation in the world forever."
In order to ease gas prices, Wright had previously told CNBC that it was "quite likely" the U.S. Navy could escort oil tankers through the strait by the end of the month, but that it was not ready to do so. President Donald Trump then posted to his social media platform on Saturday that other countries would send warships to help open the Strait of Hormuz, but which countries would be involved and whether they had all agreed to work together in some way is unclear.
When asked by Raddatz which countries would be sending warships, Wright did not confirm specifics but said that many countries in Asia rely on oil from the strait and thus have an interest to help open it.
"All nations of the world depend on products that come from the Straits of Hormuz. China top on that list. Japan, Korea, all the Asian nations is where the energy -- energy that comes out of the Straits of Hormuz flows to," Wright said. "So, of course, it's quite logical to have a broad coalition of the nations of the world work to reopen the straits."
Did the Trump administration plan for the strait's closure?
One accusation Democrats have made is that the Trump administration did not adequately plan for Strait of Hormuz's closure or how it would rattle the oil market and upend supply chains. "How did Donald Trump not see this coming?" Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., asked on the Senate floor on Thursday.
Wright rebuked Schumer's comments on Sunday, accusing the top Democrat of being either "ridiculously naive or ... simply being disingenuous, which is more likely." Wright said that the Trump administration was well aware that the global oil trade would be interrupted because of the war.
"Of course, meticulous planning went into what might happen with the Strait of Hormuz, how to deal with -- deal with that. Our chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Caine, is known for many things, but high on that list is an absolute meticulous planner of all of the scenarios that might unfold," Wright said.
Later in the interview, he said the administration knew there would be a "temporary interruption" in the waterway.
"We were very aware, very aware that we would have short-term disruption ... [that] would cause a little bit of increased prices on Americans," the secretary said.
Wright described the Trump administration's plans for the strait as "meticulous."
Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., appears on ABC News' "This Week" on March 15, 2026.
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Homeland on high alert
Another major concern as the war has progressed is possible threats to the U.S. homeland as a result of the war. An attack on a synagogue in Michigan, the attempted attack at an anti-Muslim protest at New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's residence and the shootings at Old Dominion University and at a bar in Austin, Texas, are some of the major attacks just since the war began, but it is unclear whether those attacks were directly motivated by the conflict.
Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said Sunday that the attacks are not new, but that the U.S. should be prepared
