The US and Israel have debated going after Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium at a later stage of the war, Axios reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n
According to unnamed Israeli and US officials, US President Donald Trump<\/a> weighed sending special operations units into Iran, as one of several options to prevent the country from further enriching its uranium into weapons-grade material.<\/p>\n If the US were to begin “boots on the ground<\/a>” operations, officials said, it would consist of small special operations raids, not a large force.<\/p>\n One US official claimed that there were two options presented: extracting the uranium from Iran or diluting it on location.<\/p>\n “The first question is, where is it? The second question is, how do we get to it and how do we get physical control?” The official said.<\/p>\n The final decision, once US forces had control of the uranium, the official added, would be made by the president, the War Department, and the CIA.<\/p>\n According to Axios, the Iranian regime is suspected to possess 450 kg of 60%-enriched uranium<\/a>, which could be enough material for 11 nuclear bombs within only a few weeks.<\/p>\n