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Inside JSOC’s Most Dangerous Mission Ever | EYES ON GEOPOLITICS
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- The Team House
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- Jul 9, 2026
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Summary
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 "Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio" Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support .