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2a. The most difficult part comes next. The uranium would need to be located, secured for transit and safely removed. They will need to test it in situ to make sure it hasn't been substituted with something else. That's not easy to do under fire and against a time limit Iran could swap the UF6 in the cylinders with something hazardous and a way to make them leak when on board the planes. Or they could pack them with MAGA hats, who knows. By this time the defences will be fully aware and the withdrawal will be under heavy attack all the way home. There will of course be casualties but there is a greater risk - capture of troops. Leaving POWs behind would prompt further escalation