VIENNA: Should the US decide to send in military forces to secure Iran’s uranium stockpile, it would be a complex, risky and lengthy operation, fraught with radiation and chemical dangers, according to experts and former government officials. US President Donald Trump has offered shifting reasons for the war in Iran but has consistently said a primary objective is ensuring the country will “never have a nuclear weapon.” Less clear is how far he is willing to go to seize Iran’s nuclear material.

The American leader claimed Tehran would give the US ‘the nuclear dust’ as part of a peace agreement

As reports circulate that Donald Trump could launch a risky military operation to seize uranium from deep inside Iran, nuclear physicist Patricia Lewis tells Radhika Sanghani the…