The Washington Post reported on April 1, citing sources, that the military had handed US President Donald Trump a plan to confiscate some highly enriched uranium in Iran.
The plan was delivered to Trump last week (i.e. the end of March) after he requested that a proposal be prepared for it. The fact is that the White House is studying the possibility of carrying out such an operation for the first time I mentioned Wall Street Journal March 29.
The complex plan prepared by the military calls for transporting excavators to Iran and building a runway for cargo planes to remove radioactive material.
Experts believe this is an extremely difficult task – nothing like this has ever happened before in wartime. To complete the mission, hundreds or thousands of troops and heavy equipment will have to be flown to Iran. Former Pentagon officials estimate that this may take several weeks, and the operation will take place under fire deep in Iranian territory.
“This will be one of the largest, if not the largest, most complex special operations in history,” said former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Mick Mulroy, who also worked for the CIA. “This presents a grave risk to the forces.”
White House press secretary Carolyn Leavitt told The Washington Post that the Pentagon’s job is to “be prepared and give the commander-in-chief maximum discretion.” “This does not mean that the president has made a decision,” she said.
The United States and Israel went to war with Iran in order to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons, representatives of both countries said. Since the beginning of the war, the United States and Israel have repeatedly attacked Iranian nuclear facilities.
CountsMost of Iran’s current stockpile of enriched uranium lies under the rubble of the Isfahan nuclear facility, which was destroyed by the United States and Israel in June 2025. Isfahan is located about 400 kilometers from the nearest border with Iraq, 450 kilometers from Kuwait, and about 600 kilometers from Saudi Arabia.