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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.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's also something they claimed to have achieved last year when they bombed Iran.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nothing Yahoo has been claiming functional nukes since 2012.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Netanyahu has been lying that Iran is weeks away from having functional nukes since at least 1995:

https://youtu.be/p0mEWmfbdIE