Wie Trumps Plan, sich den iranischen Kernbrennstoff zu beschaffen, tatsächlich funktionieren würde

President Donald Trump and top defense officials are [reportedly](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/us/politics/trump-iran-nuclear-fuel.html) weighing whether to send ground troops to [Iran](https://www.wired.com/tag/iran/) in order to retrieve the country’s highly enriched uranium. However, the administration has shared little information about which troops would be deployed, how they would retrieve the nuclear material, or where the material would go next.

“People are going to have to go and get it,” secretary of state Marco Rubio said at a [congressional briefing](https://www.axios.com/2026/03/08/iran-ground-troops-special-forces-nuclear) earlier this month, referring to the possible operation.

There are some indications that an operation is close on the horizon. On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal [reported](https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-war-us-israel-news-updates-2026/card/pentagon-to-order-3-000-82nd-airborne-soldiers-to-middle-east-3H7VxKvxkaorsOLcRt5g?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqeI9oTaQqRBRtGZIBXxlI-tYF6mhZHV_q1vkhjqDc2q0BGuS0gm6Q79u4Eee9Q%3D&gaa_ts=69c2cb20&gaa_sig=NgaQ2xq9qXupCc1hC-ONA3lF11KN-e2S2QApcfeojkoJJmvvi51jwlDWz8UPoSPC7QZK6z27qMCKICUtkA9Ckw%3D%3D) that the Pentagon has imminent plans to deploy 3,000 brigade combat troops to the Middle East. (At the time of writing, the order has not been made.) The troops would come from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, which [specializes](https://www.82ndairbornedivisionmuseum.com/history-of-the-division/) in “joint forcible entry operations.” On Wednesday, Iran’s government [rejected](https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-war-trump-israel-tehran-mocks-us-warns-against-ground-invasion/) Trump’s 15-point plan to end the war, and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the president “is prepared to unleash hell” in Iran if a peace deal is not reached—a plan some lawmakers have [reportedly](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/tensions-flare-iran-briefing-lawmakers-trump-officials-ground-troops-rcna265231) expressed concern about.

Drawing from publicly available intelligence and their own experience, two experts outlined the likely contours of a ground operation targeting nuclear sites. They tell WIRED that any version of a ground operation would be incredibly complicated and pose a huge risk to the lives of American troops.

Read the full story here: [https://www.wired.com/story/us-iran-war-nuclear-extraction-ground-operation/](https://www.wired.com/story/us-iran-war-nuclear-extraction-ground-operation/)

That the off ramp. Trump walks away and claims he got all there uranium ( he didn’t ) then he walks away and hot potatoes the economic fallout to the democrats after midterms.

He’s a lame duck president after that anyways who doesn’t give shit to begin with. . Hell golf while the world burns.

He won’t be convicted of anything because he’s old and has heart problems. He’ll lean on that to keep him out of prison.

If they go for it, it’s going to be interesting.

Will we see a much worse version of Extortion 17?