New Delhi. The security situation in West Asia and the Gulf region is changing. In such a situation, US President Donald Trump is making a strategy on ways and options to remove Iran’s nuclear material. CBS News’ plans primarily focus on the possible deployment of troops from the secretive Joint Special Operations Command. It is an elite US military unit, often tasked with the most sensitive anti-nuclear proliferation missions.
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As of last summer, Iran had accumulated about 972 pounds of uranium, CBS News reported. Just one step away from becoming weapons-grade material, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The report also said that most of this uranium is buried under the nuclear sites that were bombed by the US last year under Operation Midnight Hammer. Although US officials have said the Trump administration has not ruled out plans to bring back Iranian stockpiles, White House press secretary Carolyn Levitt said earlier this week that it remains an option for them. Any mission to seize uranium would be potentially risky. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi pointed out that although not impossible, this action would require extraordinary military capabilities. He further said that we are talking about such cylinders which are filled with up to 60% highly contaminated uranium hexafluoride gas. Therefore it is very difficult to handle them. The US intelligence community assessed last spring that Tehran was not trying to build nuclear weapons and has consistently insisted that its nuclear program is entirely for peaceful purposes. Iran’s level of enriched uranium reaches 60% The IAEA said Iran is the only non-nuclear-weapon state to have enriched uranium to this level. Before the conflict broke out in West Asia, several rounds of talks were held between the US and Iran, aimed at resolving issues related to the country’s nuclear program.
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