Inside JSOC’s Most Dangerous Mission Ever | EYES ON GEOPOLITICS
7/9/202648 min
Jack Murphy joins us to break down his new High Side investigation into JSOC’s planned mission to recover highly enriched uranium from Iran, a raid some insiders compared to “Eagle Claw 2.0.” He explains why the operation would have required far more than a small special operations team, the risks of fighting in a CBRN environment, and why the mission may have been too dangerous to greenlight.
The High Side:
https://substack.com/@thehighside/note/p-192763347?utm\_source=notes-share-action&r=mr77m
Jack's new book:
https://a.co/d/0gywUGvn
00:00 - Inside JSOC’s Planned Iran WMD Raid
01:21 - Why Some Called It “Eagle Claw 2.0”
03:41 - Why Getting Into Iran Was Only Half the Problem
04:46 - Not a Quick Hit: Why This Required 1,000+ Troops
06:40 - Moving Highly Enriched Uranium Out of Iran
07:37 - Fighting Through a CBRN Environment
08:04 - The Libya WMD Plan That Foreshadowed Iran
09:55 - The Limits of Small Special Operations Teams
11:10 - Why JSOC Wanted to Capture the Uranium
12:29 - The Dirty Bomb Risk of Leaving Material Behind
14:56 - Why Trump Did Not Greenlight the Raid
18:14 - JSOC vs. CENTCOM Tensions Over the Mission
20:37 - Iran’s Air Defenses and MQ-9 Reaper Losses
25:20 - JSOC’s Counter-WMD Mission Before 9/11
32:10 - Pakistan’s Fear of a U.S. Nuclear Weapons Raid
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Jack Murphy· Guest0:28
On one hand, it's about a, a type of, uh, mission that JSOC has been training for since its inception, which is counterproliferation on counter-weapons of mass destruction. Uh, but it also zeros in specifically on the case of Iran and, uh, the plans and the training exercises that JSOC has conducted to potentially go into Iran by force and remove the highly enriched uranium. And this is an operation that would be incredibly complex a-and incredibly dangerous. Uh, some people in the command began referring to it as Eagle Claw two point O, uh, which is a reference to Operation Eagle Claw in nineteen eighty, in which Delta Force, uh, and the Rangers went to rescue hostages that were being held in Tehran. The whole thing ended in a fiasco at a desert, uh, staging ground called Desert One, where a helicopter and, uh, aircraft were blown up. Other helicopters were disabled by a sandstorm.