US Mulls Special Forces Raid to Secure Iran's Uranium Stockpile
Experts warn Iran has enough highly enriched uranium for 10 nuclear warheads, prompting US to consider military action to seize the stockpile.
The Trump administration is reportedly weighing a bold and risky move to deploy special forces into Iran in order to secure the country's stockpile of highly enriched uranium (HEU), which experts say could be used to create up to 10 nuclear warheads. Preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is one of the administration's top foreign policy priorities, and the 440kg HEU stockpile represents the greatest immediate nuclear threat, as it could be relatively easily refined into weapons-grade uranium.
According to sources familiar with the matter, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told Congress that
Source: The Guardian
