Military assessments regarding Iran’s nuclear program highlight significant challenges for the United States should it attempt to secure or neutralize the country’s highly enriched uranium. Iran has reportedly enriched uranium to 60% purity, a level nearing weapons-grade, and housed much of its infrastructure deep underground in fortified facilities like Fordow. Experts suggest that while the U.S. possesses specialized deep-penetration munitions designed for such targets, a mission to physically secure the material would involve immense logistical risks and the potential for a broader regional conflict.
- Iran currently possesses a stockpile of uranium enriched to 60%, which experts state is technically close to the 90% threshold required for a nuclear weapon.
- The Fordow enrichment facility is located hundreds of feet beneath a mountain, making it resistant to most conventional aerial strikes.
- To target such hardened sites, the U.S. military utilizes the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), a 30,000-pound bomb specifically designed to reach deep underground targets.
- Planners indicate that a single “surgical strike” would likely be insufficient to destroy the program, requiring instead a sustained air campaign over several days or weeks.
- Securing the enriched uranium itself would necessitate a large-scale ground operation to physically remove the material, posing extreme risks to personnel and regional stability.
- Military officials express concern that Iran’s technical knowledge cannot be destroyed, meaning the program could potentially be reconstituted even after physical infrastructure is neutralized.
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!!!!!! Please don’t waste your time or ours. Don’t treat us like fools. Don’t sacrifice the Iranian people for your own goals.
The ONLY solution is to help the Iranian people, under the leadership of Mr. R. Pahlavi, remove this fanatical, fascist regime from power.
Boots on the ground and it better be Israelis not Americans
I wasn't born but sounds like Vietnam a war that wasn't our business
US can do it !!!!!
"I would go in a heartbeat"
So, that's his lying face
Trump must love the conclusion of this interview. 😂😂😂
to secure ??? Or to steal?😊
Double standards. West have nuclear weapon for dominating rest of the world.
Will be a graveyard
The world should take America's nuclear materials. You're the ones who have guys saying fake bible verses and using religion to justify war.
BS under Trump!!! 👎🏿👎🏿
If America, Europe, Jews, Israel and Arabs would have wanted peace. The very most important spot to build peace would have been to create two states. One Israel and one Palestine OR one Israel and have some agreement that West bank goes to Jordan or is split among Israel and Jordan and Gaza to Egypt. This should have happened 30 years ago and we would not have had a Iran thinking to have a nuclear weapon because they would not have had a reason to do so. Gaza or West bank would be at peace and nobody would die. I keep hearing many people saying Iran is the head of octopus and all those terror organisation it has are the hands. We might well say that is true but America is the same. What matters is to talk and have honest agreement where you lose something but you gain a lot. As of now nobody seems to have this in their stupid heads.
White House propaganda
Even if you take Iran's uranium, can't they just get more from Russia or DPRK?
11:50 coming from US which they had a 100% verifiable deal already in place with Iran and betrayed every single clause in there and torn apart the deal. And since used every single tool in their arsenal to block every inch of a benefit Iran could have received by limiting their nuclear enrichment capability.
Yes we all heard that Iran is 2 weeks away from a nuclear bomb since 500 BC
The u.s paranoid of the nuclear weapon…is it because they saw the destruction after they first used it on another country. 😂do the us fear karma
U.s the only country to drop a atomic bomb on someone's head so far😂it was devastating they should be campaigning on eliminating all nuclear weapons
No but if you bomb it and it doesn’t explode or whatever then it would prob cause it to cave in and be hard to get to
After the fall of the Soviet Union the US acquired weapons grade uranium from a number of former Soviet republics, including Russia, through various means. At the time the economic situation of these countries was so difficult that the uranium became a commodity that was willingly sold in exchange for badly needed dollars. A military operation to take the Iranian
HEU by force would be exceptionally difficult and dangerous. I find it very hard to believe that senior US military commanders would recommend such an operation to the President. Trump's talk about seizing the uranium was probably just bluster anyway – this is what he likes to do. In any case, talking about the uranium in public was and continues to be a mistake because it only encourages the Iranians to guard the facility all the more closely. It is highly likely that the uranium will remain where it is until the radical Islamic regime is overthrown and replaced by a moderate regime which will then sell the uranium to the US in exchange for badly needed funds to rebuild the country.
What about Israel having nuclear weapons
Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Dan Rather, Harry Reasoner, Ed Bradley and Andy Rooney made 60 Minutes one of the most successful news shows ever. The Wallace interview of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 was what made the program so credible, what happened!?
7:05 That's some vocal fry.
Way to go girl.
Project Sapphire is recounted in Richard Rhode's book, "Twilight of the Bombs". I just happened to be reading it.
T H E F T .
Americans are going to learn the hard way that we can't do whatever we want and we don't own the world. We have 70 years of comeuppance headed our way and we won't be allowed to forget it. It's a shame to see 60 Minutes manufacturing consent, but we all saw this coming once Bari Weiss was appointed to make it happen.
Weapon mass destruction disappeared 😂
US safe keeping other countries nuclear material😁😁😁 Hillarous
o noooo, Iran doesn't roll over 😢
Dude, don't mix up things! At that time Iran was not under these radical islamic terrorists. They didn't seek a nuclear weapon in the 1970s. Go read history.
Why doesn’t the hypocritical state of Isreal allow inspections at its own nuclear weapons site ?
Trump isn't the President the world wants but the one we need.
We should all get Nukes. I wanna nuke. You wanna Nuke? You getta Nuke! No Nuke for you? How's aboot a Moose, eh? You wanna Mooooooose? No? How's aboot a Noooook?
I support efforts that promote peace.
Forcing the narrative to justify a stupid war without a plan? This is like I will attack my neighbors because I do not know if they have a gun. They can have one probably because they never say it. And surprise there is not gun. That is USA mentality
How come Iran is not allowed to have HEU or nuclear weapons?
60 minutes = Full war propaganda.
The question should be the other way around what would it take iran to secure the United States 5000 nuclear weapons. We all know this is not about nuclear weapons this is an excuse to destroy Muslim nations by using NATO but this time it did not work for the United States the world has realized the United States is led by criminals for sure.
It won't take nothing because it's not happening
"Trump claims…"
Trump is not a reliable source, he is the opposite of a reliable source. Not to mention a sociopath.
What about North Korea 🇰🇵 Kim has nukes why y’all don’t go take it from it as well?
You can tell she is just another Trump hating reporter for 60 Minutes.
Only iran nuclear can stop israhell to be trouble maker 😂😂
In what world could the shown mission be a blueprint for the current mission in Iran are y'all not right in the head??
Military or negotiation, none is a good and viable option with Iran period
The United States acting like God is actually funny
So you want us to believe that you are trying to prevent nuclear material from the wrong hands 😂😂😂 but nuclear material in the hands of a gang like usa and isreal that commit a genocide in Gaza is in the right hands 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 wow just wow