The #US #military has given #Trump a plan to seize nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched #uranium in #Iran that would involve flying in excavation equipment & building a runway for cargo planes to take the radioactive material out, acc/to two people familiar with the matter.

The complex plan was briefed to Trump in the past week after he asked for a proposal, they said, as were its significant operational risks.

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Trump’s request for the plan, previously unreported, signals his interest in contemplating what would be an unusually sensitive & high-stakes special operations mission.…

Limiting Iran’s capacity to build a #nuclear weapon remains a top goal of the #Trump admin. But this plan, experts say, would represent an enormously difficult endeavor of a type never before attempted during wartime.

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The mission would require the airlift of potentially hundreds or thousands of #troops & heavy equipment to support the excavation & recovery of #radioactive material. That could take weeks, former #defense officials have estimated, & take place under fire deep inside #Iran.

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