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While talk of ground operations in Iran previously revolved around the Strait of Hormuz and its islands, President Donald Trump is now considering sending troops deep into Iran to snatch 1000 pounds of uranium in what Alex Jones has described as a “suicide mission.”
“They’re going to give us the nuclear dust,” Trump told reporters Sunday night.
Note that Iran’s enriched uranium would only be “dust” if it is blown up, such as in a dirty bomb. A single inhaled particle of which could trigger lung cancer years down the road.
Unnamed U.S. sources told The Washington Post about the potential “high-risk” operation Sunday.
“President Trump is weighing a military operation to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of uranium from Iran, according to U.S. officials, a complex and risky mission that would likely put American forces inside the country for days or longer,” The Washington Post said Sunday. “Trump hasn’t made a decision on whether to give the order, the officials said, adding that he is considering the danger to U.S. troops. But the president remains generally open to the idea, according to the officials, because it could help accomplish his central goal of preventing Iran from ever making a nuclear weapon.”
“If you have a 70 IQ [mentally retarded] you could see this is a suicide mission,” Alex Jones said Monday, going on to explain how the Iranians have obviously relocated the uranium multiple times, turning a radioactive snatch-and-grab into an atomic search party behind enemy lines.
The administration is hoping to convince Iran to peacefully hand over the uranium as part of negotiations, but will also not rule out grabbing it by force.
“Before Israel and the U.S. conducted a series of airstrikes on Iran in June last year, the country was believed to have more than 400 kilograms of 60% highly enriched uranium, and nearly 200 kilograms of 20% fissile material, which is easily converted into 90%-weapons-grade uranium,” The Post said. “International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi has said he thinks the uranium is mainly at two of the three sites that the U.S. and Israel attacked in June: an underground tunnel at the nuclear complex in Isfahan and a cache at Natanz. The Iranians have centrifuges to enrich uranium and the capability to set up a new underground enrichment site, experts said.”
Ironically, the media website said that Trump has been told “privately” by his “allies” that the plan would work. The sheer fact this “private” conversation is being publicized in a national media outlet raises doubt that Trump’s “allies” are keeping their “private” conversations private.
Trump’s “allies” also assured him that the mission would not extend the timeframe of the conflict, risking greater Republican losses in the midterms. While Trump’s “allies” are attempting to coax him into a suicide mission, “former U.S. military officers and experts” said the reality of such an operation is much more involved.
The Post detailed what such a snatch-and-grab operation would entail:
Teams of U.S. forces would need to fly to the sites, likely under fire from Iranian surface-to-air missiles and drones. Once on site, combat troops would need to secure perimeters so that engineers with excavating equipment could search through debris and check for mines and booby traps.
The extraction of the material would likely need to be conducted by an elite special operations team specially trained to remove radioactive material from a conflict zone. The highly enriched uranium is likely contained in 40 to 50 special cylinders that resemble scuba tanks. They would need to be put into transportation casks to protect against accidents. That could fill several trucks, said Richard Nephew, a senior research scholar at Columbia University and a former nuclear negotiator with Iran.
Unless an airfield was available, a makeshift one would need to be set up to bring equipment in and take the nuclear material out. The entire operation would take days or even a week to complete, experts said.
“Trump has declined to publicly say whether he would order the uranium-retrieval mission. On Saturday, he urged his followers on social media to watch Mark Levin’s Fox News show, during which the conservative commentator advocated for Trump ‘to get the uranium’,” The Post said.
Since the first week of air operations against Iran Jones has been discussing how the conflict will move into a much more deadly ground war phase.
