U.S. Mulls Sending Special Forces Into Iran

[applegrove]

U.S. Mulls Sending Special Forces Into Iran

March 8, 2026 at 8:38 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 88 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/03/08/u-s-mulls-sending-special-forces-into-iran/

“The U.S. and Israel have discussed sending special forces into Iran to secure its stockpile of highly enriched uranium at a later stage of the war,” Axios reports.

“Preventing Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon is one of President Trump’s stated war objectives. The regime’s 450 kilograms of 60%-enriched uranium — convertible to weapons grade within weeks — is one key to that goal.”

Applegrove: how do you secure 450 KG of 60%-enriched uranium if you don't run the country? Do you take it away? Blow it up? Physics-ly or chemically neutralize it? What on earth are they talking about?

[surfered]

1. He's getting crazier.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Winging it is not a winning strategy

Loser Trump is gonna break everything he can.

[Greg_In_SF]

3. I'd bet that

we already have special forces unit in Iran.

[GJGCA]

4. Ayup and fer sure. nt

[Prairie Gates]

5. What happened to the Invasion of the Kurds subplot?

Are we already on season 2 of this farce?

[Bookreadingliberal53]

6. Kurds told him no nt

[Prairie Gates]

14. Yeah no shit

[usonian]

7. SEND ICE. SEND ICE

Every last one of them.

Think of it as a "foreign adventure"

Fully funded. Fully Funded.

[ananda]

9. Somehow that idea pleases me.

And they can wear masks too.

[OhioBlue]

15. Yes!! They have all the equipment and budget for it. n/t

[Melon]

8. We took the sitting leader of Venezuela without control

I don’t see it happening. They are talking about it in the press so how would Iran not have this stuff hidden like the Arc of the covenant?

[Igel]

10. You don't secure it in place.

Chemistry won't change what it is, just dilute it.

Bombarding it to change the nuclei would take a lot of energy and equipment and time, and it ain't happening. (Plus the resultant radioactive mix would be highly unpleasant and dangerous.)

Blow it up and it just gets scattered--and makes the site barely habitable. Still, chunks can be collected and the site mostly decontaminated, recovering the HEU.

That leaves taking it away.

But the fact that they have that much of 60% HEU when 80% is weapons grade (and one sample, it was claimed a few years back, was @ 80%) and only a few reactor designs--none possessed by Iran--need even 20% HEU.

It's like Russia's claims in mid-February 2022 that all the munitions and manpower and vehicles at the Ukrainian border were just there on "exercises" and Russia had no intention of actually invading Ukraine. Sometimes all the effort put into what could only be preparation for something really does signal not necessarily intent but the intent to be able to quickly do that "something" if the decision is made.

[applegrove]

12. Thanks. What is HEU?

[doc03]

11. I bet they are already there.

[haele]

13. Probably. I knew a Marine who was with a group of special forces in 1979...

Just outside the gates of Tehran waiting on the helicopters to cross the border into Iran to go in and retrieve the hostages.
The refueling stop where the helos became damaged and had to abort was unplanned. They still should have had 3/4 of their fuel left from where they took off, that was just a last minute decision after they had already took off to start the mission and in mid air .
He always wondered why the order went down to stop and top off in a rather sketch location to begin with, when there should have been more than enough fuel to get back to a relatively nearby friendly country after they picked up the hostages - after all, there was no issue picking up the special forces team at the rendezvous point and getting them back to base after the failed attempt.

He said he wasn't a conspiracy nut, but there were a couple things, especially the last minute order, in that situation that didn't make it seem as if it was a normal fubar. And it definitely affected the outcome of the election.