The United States is planning to deploy special operations forces to physically seize highly enriched uranium from Iranian nuclear facilities. The US Treasury has already frozen between $344 million and $500 million in Iranian-linked cryptocurrency assets as part of Operation Economic Fury in April 2026. Iran possesses approximately 450 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% purity across facilities in Isfahan, Natanz, and Fordow. That quantity could theoretically be converted into enough weapons-grade material for approximately eleven nuclear bombs. Ongoing negotiations have reportedly explored conditioning the release of some frozen assets on Iran addressing its highly enriched uranium stockpile.
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