The U.S. military has given the president a plan to seize nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium in Iran that would involve flying in excavation equipment and building a runway for cargo planes to take the radioactive material out, according to two people familiar with the matter. Source link
Israeli special forces troops only needed two and a half hours to infiltrate an Iranian-funded underground missile factory, rig it with explosives and blow it up. Flying low by helicopter into Syria in the last months of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in 2024, the commandos conducting Operation Many Ways destroyed an underground complex that had been considered impervious to air strikes. Last year, it was the American special forces’ turn to carry out a similarly audacious mission. Swooping into Nicolás Maduro’s fortified compound in Caracas, they snatched the Venezuelan dictator and his wife from the protection of their bodyguards. Perhaps emboldened by these successes, Mr Trump is weighing a mission that would be even more ambitious – deploying special forces on the ground to seize Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile. The high-stakes mission would aim to capture or degrade hundreds of kilograms of enriched uranium, denying Iran the material needed to make nuclear weapons. 1703 How US could extract uranium from Iranian nuclear facilities Any such raid would also finish the work of America and Israel’s air …
07/03/2026 – 15:30 Around 500,000 told to flee Dahiyeh in Beirut Adéa Guillot, spokesperson for CARE France, says there are no precise figures for the total number of displaced people in Lebanon but estimates range from 300,000 to 700,000, with women and girls among the most vulnerable. 07/03/2026 – 15:27 Iran FM accuses US of attacking desalination plant on Gulf island Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused the US of attacking a desalination plant on a Gulf island, saying it had set a precedent. “The US committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island,” said Araghchi in a post on X. “Water supply in 30 villages has been impacted. Attacking Iran’s infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences. The US set this precedent, not Iran.” 07/03/2026 – 15:20 Thousands of Americans evacuated from Middle East on charter flights, State Department says The US has completed over a dozen charter flights and evacuated thousands of Americans from the Middle East since last week, the US State Department said. …
