DANG!
Posted on 02/13/2018 6:45:34 AM PST by Red Badger
Adviser to Khamenei says aid collectors for Palestinians sought to deploy reptiles whose skin 'attracted atomic waves'
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The former chief-of-staff of Iran’s armed forces said Tuesday that Western spies had used lizards to “attract atomic waves” and spy on his country’s nuclear program.
It was the latest in a long line of incidents of Western countries, including Israel, being accused of deploying secret agents from the animal kingdom.
Hassan Firuzabadi, senior military adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was responding to questions from local media on the recent arrest of environmentalists.
He said he did not know the details of the cases, but that the West had often used tourists, scientists and environmentalists to spy on Iran.
“Several years ago, some individuals came to Iran to collect aid for Palestine… We were suspicious of the route they chose,” he told the reformist ILNA news agency.
“In their possessions were a variety of reptile desert species like lizards, chameleons… We found out that their skin attracts atomic waves and that they were nuclear spies who wanted to find out where inside the Islamic Republic of Iran we have uranium mines and where we are engaged in atomic activities,” he said.
Firuzabadi said Western spy agencies had “failed every time.”
His comments came after news that a leading Iranian-Canadian environmentalist, Kavous Seyed Emami, had committed suicide in prison after he was arrested along with other members of his wildlife NGO last month.
Several spying allegations involving various creatures have been leveled against Israel over the past years.
In January 2016, Lebanese residents captured a griffon vulture wearing an Israeli tracking device, but released it upon realizing that the transmitter strapped to the bird was intended for scientific research rather than espionage.
Several months earlier, Hamas claimed to have caught a dolphin wearing Israeli spying equipment.
Twice in recent years, Turkish media has highlighted allegations that birds tagged with Israeli university tracking devices were on espionage missions.
In 2012, an eagle with an Israeli tag in Sudan was captured and alleged to be as a Mossad spy.
Two years earlier, an Egyptian official said Israel-controlled sharks may have been involved in a number of attacks on tourists in the Red Sea.
I think insects would be more effective at spying than reptiles.
"A horned toad can tell you which way to go." -- Chief Dan George
"I can translate." -- NicknamedBob
“Go that way!”
Evening, Bob. I finished “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell” on 26 audio CDs. The resolution was satisfactory. There’s room for a sequel, if the author didn’t die of old age writing this one.
Needs Photoshop.
;-)
That wouldn’t give him his tail back.
I know, but make him an action hero and it might do wonders for his reptile self esteem!
He seems to be pretty self-confident. (I don’t think he’s smart enough to know that he doesn’t have a tail.) Baby casts him a glance of unutterable contempt, and he thinks, “That means she’s crazy about me!”
“I’m drawing looks, it’s a start!”
Now THEM! is ants!
DANG!
Lizards don’t eat nuts.
Well, that was a totally BS drive back from work.
28° F outside and raining, so the roads were slick.
Oh, and no road crews salting or sanding.
Great movie, and it's in my collection, thanks to my son!
Floofy kittehs! Actually, they look like bench warmers. ;o]
Good morning.
I’m sorry Sally is a drama queen. Pity poor her for being left behind once. It seems like every family with more than one child is doomed to have one. The sad thing is they never grow out of it.
Have we already forgotten the historic tragedy that is Godzilla? !?!
Imagine if you will a 100 foot tall chameleon... Hiding in plain sight in downtown Tehran!
(yeah, when I write out like this, I suppose it could be construed as a laughing matter)
The days of Godzirra and Mothra and Gidra are alive and well in Iran!
But I’m thinking in terms of skink-sized or bearded dragon-sized spies. I mean, the former three would be way too obvious as spies. Imagine a giant reptile eye looking in the lab window... Yeah. Like that.
If I told you, I’d have to...
;D
Couldn’t we put a Komodo Dragon and a liberal in a room to find out?
Tom’s a drama queen, too. I think they’ll grow out of it enough to function.
Tom will be annoyed at having to stay at CP until 4:00 today, but if he’d gotten up this morning and showed up to discuss the schedule, I would have offered to pick him up at 12:30, when I’ll be on the way home from church with the younger children.
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