Trump is strategizing means to seize Iran's nuclear stockpiles, sources say

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Source: CBS News

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Trump is strategizing means to seize Iran's nuclear stockpiles, sources say

By Jennifer Jacobs, James LaPorta, Eleanor Watson
Updated on: March 20, 2026 / 9:50 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — The Trump administration has been strategizing methods and options to secure or extract Iran's nuclear materials, according to multiple people briefed on the discussions, as a U.S.-Israel led military campaign against Tehran enters a more uncertain phase.

The timing of any such an operation – if President Trump were to order it – remained unclear Friday night. One source said he has made no decision yet.

But planning has centered on the possible deployment of forces from the secretive Joint Special Operations Command, the elite military unit often tasked with the most sensitive counter-proliferation missions, two of the sources told CBS News.

Spokespeople for the White House and Pentagon didn't immediately comment.

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[RockRaven]

1. If one were to try to seize nuclear materials *by force*, and one were resisted by armed forces

of the nation being invaded, wouldn't there be a fairly high likelihood of nuclear materials being blown up (and thereby scattered around) by someone or other in all that shooting and bombing and whatnot?

How are you going to get in, get it, and get out without being blown up?

We're not talking about an amount of material that one human can pick up and carry. It's not a briefcase from a James Bond movie. The number bandied about in news articles is 440.9 kg of highly enriched uranium. A thousand pounds. And that's just the uranium itself (obviously it isn't stored in one giant zip lock baggie).

[Cheezoholic]

3. Agree but I wouldn't put it past someone who endorsed shooting up bleach and people shoving black lights up their wazoo

to prevent a viral infection to think its a good idea. Nobody's tried it, but nobody's as good as him and he has the guts to do it, or so some voice echo's in his head. Hell maybe some of his bootlickers are telling him to do it. They're all insane.

[Diraven]

5. I assume that's the plan B

If the mission to seize it is in danger of failing they'll certainly blow it up to make it unrecoverable, which would be worse than Chernobyl.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Don't tell the marmalade shartcannon the half a ton of enriched uranium

Is in a van down by the river.

Does the idiot know how many hidey-holes there in a country the size of Alaska?

[Prairie Gates]

4. Clown shit

Honestly, the press should stop publishing these admin source fantasies.

[LudwigPastorius]

6. The brainless fat fuck has watched too many Mission Impossible movies.

He's fired anyone at the Pentagon who will say "no" to such a suicide mission.

If Trump goes through with this, he's just going to get a bunch of our elite personnel killed.