Tehran has enough material to make at least 10 nuclear warheads but extracting it would be very risky, say experts
The Trump administration is reportedly considering the deployment of special forces into Iran to secure its stockpile of highly enriched uranium (HEU), which experts say could be used to make at least 10 nuclear warheads.
Preventing Iran from acquiring a bomb is one of Trump’s stated war aims, and the 440kg HEU stockpile represents the greatest nuclear threat as it could be turned into weapons-grade uranium relatively easily. The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has told Congress that “people are going to have to go and get it”.
Rubio did not go into greater detail, but there have been US and Israeli reports on discussions between the two countries on how such a mission might be carried out by special forces from either or both militaries. But nuclear experts say the complexity and risk involved would be considerable.
Has it been 20 years of this “Iran nukes!” business?
Let Israel “secure the nuclear stockpile”, they’re right there already, we don’t need to buy them a boat or anything
WMDs are baaack, baby!
Lord Farquaad don’t give a shit.
The nuclear stockpile that Trump said was destroyed over a year ago in a previous strike? And which probably didn’t exist in the first place?
I am a little confused about all this as all of the analysts claim that this material is literally under tons of rubble. Are the special forces going to be bringing excavators and cranes?
This is a vibe-based war, they’re just going to show up and wing it.
“going to” as if thats not what already has happened
Preventing Iran from acquiring a bomb is one of Trump’s stated war aims
Something that could have been achieved through continued negotiations, resulting in far fewer lives lost and less money wasted. Assassinating Iran’s leaders and threatening to invade only serves to bolster their justifications for seeking nuclear weapons in the first place.
At this point Iran having the bomb would be more stabilizing for the region than if they are prevented from it.
I predict the US will sell Iran some bombs ro bring stability back to the region. I’ll bet 2 dimes and a nickel on this.
It’s also something they claimed to have achieved last year when they bombed Iran.
Nothing Yahoo has been claiming functional nukes since 2012.
Netanyahu has been lying that Iran is weeks away from having functional nukes since at least 1995:
Not even a weapon of mass destruction but a literal pile of radioactive metal that “could” be turned into a bomb.
This is about imaginary as you could possibly get. Truly war theatre for the masses that are apparently dumb enough to believe it.
The American masses are getting dumber so the lies can be lazier.
I have to agree here. It is like they aren’t even trying anymore.
This mother fucker rebliterated the nukes just to send troops in and take them back
So, we all understand that the recent reporting of “weighing” and “considering” and “exploring” probably means that US boots are already on the ground inside Iran, right?
I expect if any US soldiers were on the ground in Iran, Iran would release a video of the prisoners
Is this the nuclear stockpile that Trump destroyed last year?
The one that they wouldn’t have even had if not for the pedophile ripping up the anti proliferation treaty with Iran during his first turn? With no replacement. On whim. For no legitimate reason.
It’s the stockpile that’s perfectly collocated with the military positions controlling the strait of Hormuz, oil fields, refineries, and other strategic economic positions. They didn’t even bother with the made up intel from UK this time.
That was the enrichment facility, but Iran won’t have kept the output it generated prior to it being bombed there.
I feel like if Iran really wants nukes fast, they should just ship that uranium and some cash to NK to have it enriched to weapons grade.
Maybe exchange the missile technology for their warhead design too.
Cuz even though we already are highly aware the US is lying when they say it could be refined super easily in the middle of a war, any attempt to do so would immediately get noticed and promptly bombed.
…
Actually a funnier idea would be to place a bunch of fake inflatable enrichment cylinders in some random location in the mountains so that the US and Israel waste their muntions on a fake encirchment facility lol.
Not even to protect the real one, just to make them turn their attention away from everything else and bomb an empty mountain.
So, let me get this straight. The US and Israel started a war, allegedly, to stop the Iranian nuclear bomb project, without any actual plan on how to remove the nuclear programme assets?
Also, they boasted that their bombing of Iran last year had completely destroyed Iran’s nuclear program. And the experts say there never even was an Iranian nuclear bomb program worth the name.
Trump probably thinks Iran is a flat desert suitable for tanks, and not in fact surrounded by mountains.
Right! Every time I see something like this I wonder that people don’t realise the terrain around Tehran and the north-west. A ground invasion against Iran would make Afghanistan look like a picnic in comparison.
I voted for Trump because I was tired of Wars and now I need to vote Trump AGAIN to Stop the War that Trump started To Protect the State of Pedophiles!
-Literally EVERYONE who Votes Republican!
So, ground war it is. Sounds like a quagmire in the making.
The mountains of Iran are not for the faint of heart.
