2026-06-12T16:37:24.130Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/12/politics/us-military-plan-uranium-iran-ground-troops
两位知情人士告诉CNN，美国最高将领上月末秘密紧急前往佛罗里达州的美国中央司令部总部，当面听取美军向伊朗派遣地面部队、强行夺取其高浓缩铀的计划细节——高浓缩铀是制造核武器的关键原料。
消息人士称，此次 briefing 任务紧迫且高度敏感，以致于美军参谋长联席会议主席丹·凯恩将军不得不从布鲁塞尔举行的北约高级官员会议上紧急跨大西洋返程，于5月19日抵达佛罗里达州坦帕。此次高层且紧急的 briefing 凸显了本届政府距离批准这项高风险地面行动仅一步之遥。
美军联合参谋部发言人拒绝就潜在行动的筹备工作置评。
其中一位消息人士透露，凯恩随后向唐纳德·特朗普总统汇报了该行动的多种可选方案。
但消息人士称，特朗普在接到警告后叫停了计划：行动可能会引发伊朗的强烈报复，延长战争，并进一步扰乱全球经济。另有知情人士表示，特朗普还对可能出现大量美军伤亡表示担忧。
此次行动的先期规划正值特朗普多次表态称美国与伊朗即将达成协议，开放霍尔木兹海峡并结束伊朗核计划谈判。周四特朗普称，美伊双方很快将签署协议，最快可能在本周末。
但上月围绕向伊朗派遣地面部队的讨论显示，美国距离冲突大规模升级仅有一步之遥。
“风险极高，”一位了解此次潜在军事行动计划的消息人士说道，并补充称特朗普上月否决军方行动提议并不令人意外。
另有三位知情人士告诉CNN，德黑兰也在策划一项经济“核选项”：如果与美国的谈判失败、战争重启，伊朗将指使胡塞武装——伊朗在也门的主要代理武装力量——关闭巴布-el-曼德海峡。该海峡是关键航道和全球贸易咽喉要道，在伊朗数月封锁霍尔木兹海峡期间，这里作为红海入口仍是航运生命线。
一名高级政府官员周五回应CNN的置评请求时，列出了伊朗据称在谈判中同意的多项条款：包括销毁并转移核材料、拆除核计划、开放霍尔木兹海峡，以及停止伊朗资助恐怖主义代理组织——只有在这些条件达成后，伊朗才能获得制裁解除。
据伊朗国家媒体报道，伊朗对协议内容的说法截然不同，伊朗称不会承诺放弃霍尔木兹海峡的管理权，且任何协议都要求立即解冻伊朗240亿美元的冻结资金。
夺取伊朗高浓缩铀是特朗普迄今未通过谈判或军事手段实现的主要目标之一。
尽管特朗普多次提及美军可能入境强行夺取铀原料的可能性，但他一直不愿推进可能造成大量美军伤亡的行动——他质疑美国民众是否会支持这类行动。
周四特朗普在接受福克斯新闻采访时，针对另一项可能造成重大伤亡的潜在美军行动选项——夺取伊朗石油出口枢纽哈尔克岛——表示：“我不知道美国有没有这个决心。”
尽管存在诸多风险，但夺取伊朗浓缩铀的行动——尤其是其近武器级浓度的970磅浓缩铀——并未完全被排除。
随着伊朗在核计划让步问题上拖延，包括自愿放弃其高浓缩铀库存，特朗普的挫败感与日俱增。消息人士告诉CNN，这批浓缩铀分散在伊朗多个核设施中，主要位于伊斯法罕、纳坦兹和福特沃基地，深埋于隧道内部。
核专家质疑美军是否能够定位并确认所有铀原料的位置，更不用说在敌对环境下安全彻底地转移。据CNN此前报道，这批材料目前仍呈气体状态，与国际原子能机构2025年6月最后一次核查时的状态一致。
次月，在美以联合空袭伊朗核设施后，伊朗拒绝国际核检查员入境。CNN此前报道称，这些空袭损毁了核设施，但并未销毁所有核材料，仍有部分留在地下隧道中。
国际原子能机构总干事拉斐尔·马里亚诺·格罗西在近期采访中警告称，现有库存足以让伊朗在决定将其核计划武器化后制造多达10枚核弹。
两位消息人士称，美国情报界也确信掌握了所有铀原料的位置，这在很大程度上得益于持续的高空监视。除高浓缩铀外，伊朗还拥有大量低等级核材料，可被用于制造“脏弹”，造成重大破坏——多位了解相关简报的消息人士表示。迄今为止，谈判的焦点一直是更接近武器级的高浓缩铀。
不过，实际夺取铀原料需要部署大量美军地面部队，包括数百名特种作战人员，CNN此前报道。
“在那些隧道和成百上千的桶里搜寻无异于大海捞针，难度极大，”一位消息人士说道。“我们必须建立大规模存在，本质上就是要入侵。”
一位了解相关指导方针的消息人士称，美军指挥官已确定，这类行动在特种部队“可接受风险等级”中处于“高到极高”区间，意味着即使行动成功，也可能造成大量美军伤亡。
一名高级政府官员周五承认，即使伊朗同意，转移高浓缩铀也将极具挑战性——技术细节尚未敲定。
“伊朗承诺销毁并转移浓缩材料，但具体该怎么做？这需要一点时间来研究，”该官员说道。“这是极易爆炸、极不稳定的物质。我们不可能就像拿着反铲挖土机和背包客那样下去直接搬运。”
如果发起夺取铀原料的地面行动，情报评估警告的后果之一就是巴布-el-曼德海峡关闭可能造成的经济损失，这对全球经济可能是灾难性的。
一位了解近期美国情报评估的消息人士告诉CNN，值得注意的是，胡塞武装尚未恢复对美国或其他欧洲船只的大规模袭击，但已表示任何悬挂以色列国旗或由以色列所有的船只都将成为攻击目标。该消息人士指出，将潜在攻击目标范围扩大到以色列船只以外将代表严重的升级。
消息人士称，伊朗迄今一直阻止胡塞武装采取这一行动，因为他们知道这可能破坏正在进行的和平谈判。
但如果追求协议的努力失败、美国恢复全面作战行动，伊朗仍可能打出这张牌——而特朗普对此一直保持警惕。
伊朗陆军实力已大幅削弱，因此如果特朗普下令开展提取铀原料的行动，美军面临的最大风险可能是储存材料的隧道布设的诱杀装置，以及地对空导弹和肩扛式导弹。CNN此前报道称，伊朗还保留了相当数量的无人机和弹道导弹库存。
凯恩和其他军方领导人此前曾就针对伊朗的长期军事行动的规模、复杂性和潜在美军伤亡风险提出担忧。在美国发动对伊朗战争之前，他和五角大楼内部其他人士也曾警告，旷日持久的军事行动将严重影响美国武器库存和军事战备水平。
尽管特朗普过去曾发表过夺取铀原料的言论，但他周四在椭圆形办公室的讲话中对该选项表示不屑。
“没人能靠近它，因为它埋在山里，”特朗普说道。
CNN的凯文·利普塔克对本文亦有贡献。
Exclusive: US military rushed to prepare ground mission to capture Iran’s uranium, but Trump paused it, sources say
2026-06-12T16:37:24.130Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/12/politics/us-military-plan-uranium-iran-ground-troops
The US’ top general made a secret, rushed visit to US Central Command headquarters in Florida late last month to be briefed in person on plans for the US military to send ground troops into Iran to forcibly seize its highly enriched uranium, the key component necessary to produce a nuclear weapon, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
The briefings were so urgent and sensitive that they required Gen. Dan Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to rush from a meeting of senior NATO officials in Brussels back across the Atlantic to Tampa, Florida, on May 19, the sources said. The high-level and pressing nature of the briefings underscores how close the administration came to greenlighting the high-risk ground operation, sources said.
A Joint Staff spokesperson declined to comment about the preparations for a potential operation.
Caine then briefed President Donald Trump on the options for such an operation, one of the sources said.
But Trump hit pause after being warned it would likely prompt severe Iranian retaliation, extending the war and plunging the global economy into further turmoil, the sources said. Trump has also voiced concern about the potential for a significant number of US casualties, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The advanced planning for the operation came amid repeated statements by Trump that the US and Iran were approaching an agreement to open the Strait of Hormuz and conclude negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program. On Thursday Trump said the US and Iran would soon be signing a deal, potentially over the weekend.
But the discussions around sending ground troops into Iran just last month show how close the US has come to massive escalation of the conflict.
“Lots of risk,” one of the sources familiar with the plans for the potential military operation said, adding it was not surprising Trump opted against giving the military the green light last month.
Tehran has also been plotting an economic “nuclear option” if negotiations with the US fail and the war resumes, three people familiar with the matter told CNN: getting the Houthis, the Iranians’ chief proxy force in Yemen, to close the Bab-al-Mandab strait — a key waterway and global trade chokepoint that has served as a shipping lifeline as the entrance to the Red Sea amid Iran’s months-long closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
A senior administration official responded to a request for comment from CNN on Friday with a list of terms that Iran had allegedly agreed to as part of negotiations, including that its nuclear material be destroyed and removed, its nuclear program dismantled, the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and a halt to Iran’s funding of terrorist proxy groups — and only afterward would it get sanctions relief.
Iran’s version of what it has agreed to is very different, according to Iranian state media, which said Iran would not commit to ceding management of the Strait of Hormuz and that any deal required the immediate release of $24 billion of Iran’s frozen funds.
Securing Iran’s highly-enriched uranium stands out as one of Trump’s primary objectives that has not been accomplished to date, either through negotiations or military force.
While Trump has repeatedly dangled the possibility that the US might go in and forcibly seize the uranium, he’s been reluctant to move forward with an operation that could result in a large number of US casualties — something he is skeptical the American people would support.
Speaking to Fox News about another potential US military option that would likely lead to high casualties — taking control of the Iranian oil export hub of Kharg Island — Trump said Thursday that “I don’t know if America has the stomach for it.”
Despite the risks, a mission to seize Iran’s enriched uranium — particularly the 970 pounds that it has highly concentrated to near-weapons grade — has not been taken off the table entirely.
Trump’s frustration has been growing as Iran has stalled in committing to a deal that would see the country make significant concessions on its nuclear program, including willingly relinquishing its highly enriched uranium stockpile. That stockpile is spread out across several Iranian nuclear facilities, primarily the Isfahan, Natanz and Fordow complexes, and buried deep inside tunnels, sources told CNN.
Nuclear experts have expressed skepticism that a US military operation could even locate and verify all the uranium, much less safely and completely remove it under hostile conditions. The material is believed to remain in gas form, as it was at the time of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s last verification in June 2025, CNN has reported.
Iran shut out international nuclear inspectors the following month in the wake of joint US-Israel airstrikes on its facilities. Those strikes damaged nuclear facilities, but did not destroy all of the nuclear material, leaving it in underground tunnels, CNN has reported.
IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi warned in a recent interview that the existing stockpile could allow Iran to build as many as 10 nuclear bombs, should it decide to weaponize its program.
The US intelligence community is also confident it knows where all of it is thanks largely to continuous overhead surveillance, according to two sources. In addition to the highly enriched uranium, Iran has significant stockpiles of low-grade material that could be turned into a “dirty bomb” capable of inflicting significant damage, according to multiple sources briefed on the issue. Thus far negotiations have focused on the highly enriched uranium, which is closer to weapons grade.
Physically securing the uranium would require a significant US ground force, however, including hundreds of special operators, CNN has reported.
“It would be insanely difficult to fish through those tunnels and all the barrels,” one source said. “We’d have to set up a massive presence. Essentially, we’d have to invade.”
US military commanders have determined that such an operation would fall between “High to Extreme” on the “Acceptable Level of Risk” for special operations forces, according to a source familiar with the guidance, meaning the mission could result in a significant number of American casualties, even if successfully carried out.
A senior administration official acknowledged Friday that removing the highly enriched uranium, even if Iran agrees to allow it to happen, will be challenging — and the technical details have yet to be worked out.
“The Iranians commit to destroying and removing the enriched material, but how do you do that? It’s going to take a little bit of time to figure it out,” the official said. “This is very combustible stuff, very volatile stuff. We’re not just going to, like, go down there with a backhoe and a guy with a backpack and start taking it out.”
If a ground operation to capture the uranium were launched, the risk of economic damage from the closing of the Bab-al-Mandab strait, one of the outcomes intelligence assessments have warned about, could be catastrophic to the world economy.
One source familiar with recent US intelligence assessments told CNN it is notable that the Houthis have not resumed large-scale attacks against US or other European vessels, but have said that any Israeli flagged or owned ships are fair game. Expanding the scope of potential targets beyond Israeli vessels would represent a serious escalation, the source noted.
The Iranians have only held back so far from enlisting the Houthis to take that step, the sources said, because they know it could derail ongoing peace talks.
But it remains a card Iran could play if the pursuit of a deal falls apart and the US resumes full combat operations — something Trump has been wary to do.
Iran’s standing army has been significantly weakened, so the biggest risk to US troops should Trump order an operation to extract the uranium would likely be booby-trapped tunnels where the material is stored, as well as surface-to-air and shoulder-fired missiles, the source said. Iran also retains a significant percentage of its drone and ballistic missile stockpile, CNN has reported.
Caine and other military leaders have previously raised concerns about the scale, complexity and potential for US casualties that could result from an extended military operation against Iran. He and others inside the Pentagon also warned, prior to the US launching its war on Iran, that a protracted military campaign would significantly impact US weapons stockpiles and military readiness.
Despite Trump’s past comments about taking the uranium, he was dismissive of the option on Thursday in comments from the Oval Office.
“Nobody’s getting close to it because it’s buried under a mountain.” Trump said.
CNN’s Kevin Liptak contributed to this story.
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