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How Trump’s Plot to Grab Iran's Nuclear Fuel Would Actually Work

ID: ec36dfe8-2c09-5922-835f-71e079824641

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Feed Name: WIRED Security

Date Published: 2026-03-26

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Caroline Haskins

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The article reports that U.S. officials are weighing a complex and risky ground operation to retrieve Iran’s highly enriched uranium, potentially involving thousands of troops and simultaneous actions at multiple buried nuclear sites (e.g., Isfahan, Natanz, Fordow). Experts quoted say such an operation would be dangerous, logistically difficult, and could take weeks, with uncertainty about force composition, extraction methods, and post-retrieval handling of the material.

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