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.
Thank you for posting that, dear one.
I sincerely and heartily endorse a good night’s sleep!
You’re welcome. I’m going to the Blanket Show, as Monkey Face says, once I check to the doors for cats who want in.
Awww. He looks very determined!
Now THAT is an orange kitteh! Teeny little floof!
Good morning. Are you rested? Do you have another busy week ahead?
I feel like something Jake dragged in. Unngh!
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY to all the fathers, grandfathers, g-gfathers, uncles, brothers and neighbors who have ever been a dad, mentor or friend to a child.
I salute you all! May your day be loving and restful!
‘Face
Happy Father’s Day to DP!
We had three squirrels in the back this morning. Two went up the poplar tree when they spotted a carnivorous predator, but Jake got to chase the third. Shannon sat in the shade and watched.
I’m doing okay this morning. Won’t be as busy next week, although Frank is having several get-togethers with his friends. I’ll take Kathleen to the pool.
PatJamesVlad are leaving for camp at 10:30. Anoreth and Bill will be over for supper.
We don’t get much in the way of animal excitement except when six or eight little wrens chase off a crow. Or three hawks circle above the desert strips for whatever critters are loose from their leashes. Which is why the hawks make regular forays to this area.
Wednesday, of course is when my son and company arrive to gather me up and take me with them to the wedding. And at this juncture, I don’t want to go.
I’m thinking it must be the weight of the non-move that is beginning to smack me upside the head, and it seems the entire idea of moving is an exercise in futility.
You have to be to be a Gowanus alley cat.
Just keep moving forward.
I hope he finds plenty of rodents.
Such a gracious one!
May your day be filled with moments pleasing you.
Godspeed!
Eye
*blush* You’re so kind!
‘Face
THAT is a wonderful Father’s Day present for you! Congratulations to all! Please do keep us posted on the progress of the new little girl!
*hugs*
Thank you ... Prayers and Hugs
Backatcha!
What great news! Thank you for letting us know!
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