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U.S. Mulls Sending Special Forces Into Iran
March 8, 2026 at 8:38 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 88 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2026/03/08/u-s-mulls-sending-special-forces-into-iran/
The U.S. and Israel have discussed sending special forces into Iran to secure its stockpile of highly enriched uranium at a later stage of the war, Axios reports.
Preventing Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon is one of President Trumps stated war objectives. The regimes 450 kilograms of 60%-enriched uranium convertible to weapons grade within weeks is one key to that goal.
Applegrove: how do you secure 450 KG of 60%-enriched uranium if you don't run the country? Do you take it away? Blow it up? Physics-ly or chemically neutralize it? What on earth are they talking about?
surfered
(12,999 posts)C_U_L8R
(49,276 posts)Loser Trump is gonna break everything he can.
Greg_In_SF
(1,221 posts)we already have special forces unit in Iran.
GJGCA
(275 posts)Prairie Gates
(7,880 posts)Are we already on season 2 of this farce?
Bookreadingliberal53
(152 posts)Prairie Gates
(7,880 posts)usonian
(24,717 posts)Every last one of them.
Think of it as a "foreign adventure"
Fully funded. Fully Funded.
ananda
(34,921 posts)And they can wear masks too.
OhioBlue
(5,185 posts)Melon
(1,449 posts)I dont see it happening. They are talking about it in the press so how would Iran not have this stuff hidden like the Arc of the covenant?
Igel
(37,493 posts)Chemistry won't change what it is, just dilute it.
Bombarding it to change the nuclei would take a lot of energy and equipment and time, and it ain't happening. (Plus the resultant radioactive mix would be highly unpleasant and dangerous.)
Blow it up and it just gets scattered--and makes the site barely habitable. Still, chunks can be collected and the site mostly decontaminated, recovering the HEU.
That leaves taking it away.
But the fact that they have that much of 60% HEU when 80% is weapons grade (and one sample, it was claimed a few years back, was @ 80%) and only a few reactor designs--none possessed by Iran--need even 20% HEU.
It's like Russia's claims in mid-February 2022 that all the munitions and manpower and vehicles at the Ukrainian border were just there on "exercises" and Russia had no intention of actually invading Ukraine. Sometimes all the effort put into what could only be preparation for something really does signal not necessarily intent but the intent to be able to quickly do that "something" if the decision is made.
applegrove
(131,721 posts)doc03
(39,031 posts)haele
(15,326 posts)Just outside the gates of Tehran waiting on the helicopters to cross the border into Iran to go in and retrieve the hostages.
The refueling stop where the helos became damaged and had to abort was unplanned. They still should have had 3/4 of their fuel left from where they took off, that was just a last minute decision after they had already took off to start the mission and in mid air .
He always wondered why the order went down to stop and top off in a rather sketch location to begin with, when there should have been more than enough fuel to get back to a relatively nearby friendly country after they picked up the hostages - after all, there was no issue picking up the special forces team at the rendezvous point and getting them back to base after the failed attempt.
He said he wasn't a conspiracy nut, but there were a couple things, especially the last minute order, in that situation that didn't make it seem as if it was a normal fubar. And it definitely affected the outcome of the election.