2026-03-20T21:41:00-0400 / CBS新闻
华盛顿 — 据多位了解相关讨论的人士透露，随着美国领导的以色列军事行动进入更不确定的阶段，特朗普政府一直在策划获取或提取伊朗核材料的方法和方案。
周五晚上，任何此类行动（如果特朗普总统下令实施）的时机仍不清楚。一位消息人士称，他尚未做出决定。
但两位消息人士告诉CBS新闻，计划的核心是可能部署来自秘密的联合特种作战司令部（Joint Special Operations Command）的部队，这支部队是精英军事单位，通常负责最敏感的防扩散任务。
白宫女发言人表示，这是五角大楼的准备工作。
五角大楼发言人未立即置评。
特朗普周五晚间在Truth Social上发文称：”我们在考虑逐步结束我们在中东针对伊朗恐怖政权的伟大军事行动时，正非常接近实现我们的目标。”
关于核材料的秘密审议是在一场不断演变的冲突中进行的，这场冲突最初集中在削弱伊朗的常规军事能力上，包括防空系统、导弹系统和与伊斯兰革命卫队相关的关键基础设施。
美国和以色列部队实施的最初几波打击旨在削弱伊朗在该地区的报复能力。然而，尽管遭受了空袭，伊朗仍能够对以色列和美国在海湾地区的盟国发动反击，并通过威胁船只阻止了大部分石油运输。
在科威特的一个基地遭到伊朗无人机袭击，导致6名美军士兵死亡、数十人受伤；另外，上周在伊拉克一架加油飞机坠毁，造成1名美军士兵死亡。
最近，特朗普政府将注意力转向了特朗普在战争开始时提出的更持久的目标：确保伊朗不再有能力制造核武器。
据联合国国际原子能机构（IAEA）称，截至去年夏天，伊朗已积累了约972磅60%丰度的浓缩铀，这离武器级材料只有一步之遥。其中大部分铀仍然埋藏在去年夏天美军行动轰炸的核设施地下。
美国官员表示，特朗普政府不排除在当前军事行动中试图获取伊朗高浓缩铀储备的可能性。白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·利维特本周早些时候告诉记者，”这是他考虑的一个选项。”
任何夺取铀的任务都将是艰巨且潜在危险的。
“我们谈论的是含有60%高浓缩六氟化铀气体的钢瓶，因此处理起来非常困难，”国际原子能机构总干事拉斐尔·格罗西本周在接受CBS新闻《面对国家》节目采访时表示。”我不是说这不可能。我知道有难以置信的军事能力可以做到这一点，但这肯定是一项极具挑战性的行动。”
美国情报界去年春天评估认为，伊朗没有试图制造核武器，伊朗坚持其核计划仅用于和平目的。但近年来，伊朗已将铀浓缩至60%丰度，超出了大多数非军事用途所需的水平。国际原子能机构表示，伊朗是唯一将铀浓缩至该水平的无核武器国家。
自战争开始以来，特朗普一直将确保伊朗无法获得核武器列为战争目标之一。
冲突爆发前，美国和伊朗举行了几轮旨在遏制伊朗核计划的间接谈判。据协助调解谈判的阿曼外交大臣巴德尔·阿尔布赛义迪（Badr Albusaidi）称，这些谈判包括讨论将伊朗的高浓缩铀稀释至较低水平并转化为燃料的内容。
特朗普一直推动伊朗完全停止铀浓缩，包括低丰度浓缩，这一想法遭到伊朗政府的拒绝。
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Trump is strategizing means to seize Iran’s nuclear stockpiles, sources say
2026-03-20T21:41:00-0400 / CBS News
Washington — The Trump administration has been strategizing methods and options to secure or extract Iran’s nuclear materials, according to multiple people briefed on the discussions, as a U.S.-Israel-led military campaign against Tehran enters a more uncertain phase.
The timing of any such an operation — if President Trump were to order it — remained unclear Friday night. One source said he has made no decision yet.
But planning has centered on the possible deployment of forces from the secretive Joint Special Operations Command, the elite military unit often tasked with the most sensitive counter-proliferation missions, two of the sources told CBS News.
A White House spokeswoman said it’s the Pentagon’s job to make preparations.
A spokesperson for the Pentagon didn’t immediately comment.
Mr. Trump in a Truth Social post Friday evening said: “We are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the Terrorist Regime of Iran.”
The private deliberations on the nuclear material come amid an evolving conflict that in its opening focused on degrading Iran’s conventional military capabilities — including air defenses, missile systems and key infrastructure tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
That initial wave of strikes carried out by U.S. and Israeli forces was intended to blunt Iran’s ability to retaliate across the region. However, despite the onslaught from the air, Iran has been able to counterstrike on Israel and U.S.-allied countries in the Gulf region, and has halted most oil shipments by threatening ships.
Six U.S. service members were killed and dozens were injured in an Iranian drone attack on a base in Kuwait, and one U.S. service member died from an attack in Saudi Arabia. Six Americans were killed when a refueling aircraft crashed in Iraq last week.
More recently, the administration turned its attention to a more enduring objective laid out by Mr. Trump at the start of the war: ensuring that Iran is no longer capable of producing a nuclear weapon.
As of last summer, Iran had amassed some 972 pounds of 60%-enriched uranium, which is a short step away from weapons-grade material, according to the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA. Much of that uranium remains buried underneath nuclear sites that were bombed by a U.S. operation last summer.
U.S. officials have said the Trump administration has not ruled out trying to retrieve Iran’s stockpiles of highly enriched uranium as part of the current military campaign. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters earlier this week that “it’s an option on the table for him.”
Any mission to seize the uranium would be arduous and potentially risky.
“We’re talking about cylinders containing gas of highly contaminated uranium hexafluoride at 60%, so it’s very difficult to handle,” Rafael Grossi, the IAEA’s director-general, told CBS News “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” this week. “I’m not saying it’s impossible. I know that there are incredible military capacities to do that, but it would be [a] very challenging operation for sure.”
The U.S. intelligence community assessed last spring that Iran was not trying to build a nuclear weapon, and Iran insists that its nuclear program is intended solely for peaceful purposes. But in recent years, Iran has enriched uranium to 60%, beyond the levels necessary for most non-military uses. The IAEA has said Iran is the only non-nuclear weapons state to enrich uranium to that level.
Since the war’s outset, Mr. Trump has listed ensuring that Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon as one of the war’s goals.
Prior to the outbreak of the conflict, the U.S. and Iran held several rounds of indirect talks aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear program. Those talks included discussions about blending Iran’s highly enriched uranium down to a lower level and converting it to fuel, according to Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi, who helped mediate the negotiations.
Mr. Trump has pushed for Iran to stop enriching uranium altogether, including at lower levels, an idea the Iranian government has rejected.
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