The United States wants to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons at all costs. That is why a few weeks ago, North American troops, in collaboration with the Israeli army, invaded Iranian territory, starting a military conflict.
In recent days, the American president, ““What matters much more to me than oil is preventing an evil empire, Iran, from acquiring nuclear weapons and destroying the Middle East, or even the entire world.”implying that for his government military defense takes precedence over the consequences of the world market.
Everything reacts in uranium; It is relevant to highlight that this chemical element is fundamental for the design of nuclear weapons. The Persians have under their power, buried 200 meters deep, almost 440 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60%, according to an article by the French media .
A complex intervention to perform
The American government has contemplated carrying out a ground intervention However, it is a high-risk task and requires a large squad of soldiers. This is stated by military historian Danny Orbach.
“To recover the Iranian uranium would require thousands of soldiers for several days; the last time the US tried something like this in Iran, eight American soldiers died,” holds. It should be remembered that in 1980, in the operation called “Eagle Claw”, eight American members died when they tried to free the hostages from the American embassy in Tehran.
Other experts on the subject emphasize the same sense as Orbach, detailing that military action would not be simple. “Israel is pressing for this operation to be carried out, but . Destroying the equipment on site would be difficult; “It would probably have to be moved to another location.”says Ian Bremmer, group founder of Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy.
For his part, Jeffrey Lewis, a specialist at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California, states that “an explosion would not burn the enriched uranium. But it could disperse him in such a way that his recovery would be long and difficult.”he concludes.
