Posted on 03/07/2026 6:27:05 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
American intelligence agencies have determined that Iran or potentially another group could retrieve Iran’s primary store of highly enriched uranium even though it was entombed under the country’s nuclear site at Isfahan by U.S. strikes last year, according to multiple officials familiar with the classified reports.
Officials familiar with the intelligence said that Iran can now get to the uranium through a very narrow access point. It is unclear how quickly Iran could move the uranium, which is in gas form and stored in canisters.
U.S. officials have said that American spy agencies have constant surveillance of the Isfahan site and have a high degree of confidence they could detect — and react — to any attempt by the Iranian government or other groups to move it.
That stockpile of uranium would be a key building block if Iran decided to move toward making a nuclear weapon.
With Iran in chaos from the ongoing strikes by the United States and Israel, the fate of the uranium and the options for securing it have become critical issues for the Trump administration.
On Saturday, President Trump was asked by reporters on Air Force One if he would consider sending in ground forces to secure the highly enriched uranium.
“Right now we’re just decimating them, but we haven’t gone after it,” he said. “But something we could do later on. We wouldn’t do it now.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said on Saturday that the decision to go to war with Iran was motivated, in part, by the Iranian government’s decision to move its nuclear and missile projects so far underground that they would be “immune to any assault.”
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I’d be surprised if the Isrealis haven’t already scoffed it up.
I am convinced that the mullahs of Iran have had that voice surgically removed.
Keep it intact.
We will go get it once the mullahs are gone
Wishful thinking by the America hating left.
baloney
That’s exactly what it is. They suck immaculate.
Well, did we fire any DU projectiles?
Go dig them up.
hard to believe folks could dig stuff up ...
i wonder how much that “intelligence” analysis cost?
So the ex-spurts think that all those canisters are still intact?
I’d hate to be the poor bastid they sent down in there to find out.
Or they could just buy everything they need, including the delivery system from China, N Korea, or Pakistan.
They had enough time and advanced warnings to simply move the HEU out of the production sites as it was refined.
11 devices worth would fit in a couple pickup trucks. I’d be surprised if it was buried under the rubble.
They are doing everything they can to rain on this parade.
You have to watch the distance between any pair of devices.
The DJT bucket that keeps on giving...
“You have to watch the distance between any pair of devices.”
Not just pairs but the aggregate as well. That’s why the US uses the “birdcages”. Criticality issues was why I spec’d two pickup trucks, since stacking up even 60% could be a problem.
I think it’s cute that the NYT assumes that the HEU is still UF6 in canisters. Even if it was, it’s a solid at room temp.
When does the US walk away? Im all giddy the mullah’s are getting blown to smithereens but is this what DC is gonna do?
Sure would like Trump to take back California for me.
You were way ahead of me !
I took Criticality 101 and passed the final.
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