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This op will be nothing more than a huge surgical air campaign with a sprinkling of small SOG incursion teams to secure the 4,000 centurfuges in subteranean Iran.
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It's one thing for a small unit to secure an objective. It's quite another for that same team, no matter how good, how well-trained, how well equipped, to hold that objective when deep inside hostile territory (and deep many/most would be). Defending what they've secured, for long periods, against what would undoubedtly would be overwhelming numbers, is not their mission - that is typically left to large Army units that are more properly suited to such a mission. And getting those large units into a position where they can move-in quickly (a few hours) means a large-scale border crossing - you might wish to call it an invasion. It could be you're wondering why I don't seem to understand that the small incursion units could simply be extracted after they secure, then destroy their objectives. Unless you have different first-hand knowledge on this sort of mission than I do, trust me when I tell you that this is a much more difficult undertaking than most folks realize. Coordinating multiple (a multiple of many times in order to secure those of the 4000 sites that air-strikes can't get) insersions, while not commonplace, is certainly doable. Knowing the precise moment - and you must be precise - to remove these men is much more difficult, given the number of events that can alter the timeline of a mission. If you don't get them out as planned, you effectively desert them - which is tantamount to sacrificing them for the mission. Care to volunteer? The Marines (and our Force Recon units) are still looking for a few good men.