The US is mulling deployment of troops on the ground in Iran to remove the country’s highly enriched Uranium — that is estimated to be converted from civilian use to weapons grade.Yesterday, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that the US military is looking “to be unpredictable” in placing troops on the ground in Iran.  “We’re not going to foreclose any option,” Hegseth said during a Pentagon briefing.“You can’t fight and win a war if you tell your adversary what you are willing to do or what you are not willing to do — to include boots on the ground,” the Pentagon chief told reporters.The House Armed Services Committee of the US Congress was briefed last week on the prospect of sending ground troops into Iran.Post the briefing, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly had then said the Trump administration has conducted 20 bipartisan briefings to members of Congress. “The President’s team will continue to work in completely demolishing the Iranian regime’s ballistic missile capabilities, Navy, ability to arm proxies and dreams of possessing a nuclear weapon.”Analysts in India said that a mission like this to extract uranium, would likely involve special operations teams to extract radioactive material from sites deep inside Iran, exposing them to threats and prolonging the already month-old conflict, by a few weeks.Former CIA Director John Ratcliffe, was quoted by US media saying Iran currently has at least 440 kg of 60 per cent enriched, weapons-grade Uranium that would allow it to build 10 nuclear weapons.Since the US and Israeli strikes – in June last year – on Iran’s premier nuclear sites — Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan — Iran has not been able to enrich “a single kilogram” of uranium to 60 per cent, Ratcliffe said earlier during a hearing before the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi had said that the nuclear material is mainly located in Isfahan, though some of it is also in Natanz. “The impression we have, and I think that is a widespread impression, it (the nuclear material) hasn’t been moved,” Grossi said.Already the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told the US Congress earlier this month that the intelligence community has “high confidence” that they know where Tehran’s enriched Uranium is located.The US is moving Marine Expeditionary Units (MEU), two of which have been ordered to the region in recent weeks. These are designed for amphibious operations, and they could also partake in the operation. Also the 101st Airborne, Army Rangers and 82nd Airborne, an Army airborne infantry division has bene moved by the US, they specialises in parachute assaults, all capable of securing the site.