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President Donald Trump ripped “Fake News NCS” in a submit to Truth Social on Monday about retrieving nuclear materials from Iran.
Trump additionally slammed “other corrupt Media Networks and Platforms” within the submit.
The president wrote, “Operation Midnight Hammer was a complete and total obliteration of the Nuclear Dust sites in Iran. Therefore, digging it out will be a long and difficult process. Fake News NCS, and other corrupt Media Networks and Platforms, fail to give our great aviators the credit they deserve — always trying to demean and belittle — LOSERS!!!”
NCS’s Anderson Cooper spoke to Alex Plitsas, a nationwide safety analyst, in addition to Andrew Weber, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs, throughout his present on Monday concerning the chance of the U.S. eradicating Iran’s extremely enriched uranium.
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President Donald Trump speaks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 16, 2026. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
CBS News’ “60 Minutes” additionally did a phase with Weber on Sunday, the place he mentioned a mission he was concerned within the Nineteen Nineties to retrieve extremely enriched uranium left behind in Kazakhstan after the autumn of the Soviet Union.
Cooper requested each visitors concerning the viability of an identical mission in Iran to retrieve the remaining extremely enriched uranium. Both Weber and Plitsas indicated it could be a a lot greater carry and energy.
“So, you’d have to have some sort of large blocking force to protect the facility,” Plitas stated. “The specialist that he was just talking about would have to then go inside. Condition unknown. Tunnels have obviously been hit. It could be a lengthy operation. Some of this is leaked out to the press, which is why some of these details are available. You could be looking at a sizable operation, which is why at this point, the President was talking originally about maybe leaving it at persistent stare for right now, and is trying to work this out through a negotiated settlement.”
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President Donald Trump gestures at a roundtable occasion about no tax on suggestions, Thursday, April 16, 2026, in Las Vegas (Lucas Peltier/AP Photo)
Weber told “60 Minutes” that it may take 1000’s of U.S. troops to perform a mission to retrieve Iran’s uranium.
“In Iran, we couldn’t send a team in to do this unilaterally without great risk,” he stated. “You would wish to arrange within the center of the nation a safe perimeter. It would in all probability take 1000’s of U.S. troops to secure the facility while our consultants excavated the HEU that is positioned inside deep tunnels at a spot known as Isfahan.”
Appearing on “Jesse Watters Primetime” Monday evening, Ret. U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, a former CENTCOM commander, additionally warned about such an operation, saying, “This would be a very, very tall order, it would be exceedingly risky. And the casualties could potentially be quite substantial.”
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NCS didn’t instantly return Fox News Digital’s request for remark.