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Iran accuses West of using lizards for nuclear spying
www.timesofisrael.com ^ | 02/13/2018 | By AFP and Michael Bachner

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.


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To: Tax-chick

I had Zeke taking up space for 40 minutes, then forced myself to go get some yogurt and found that I had enough for a bottle of warm “iced” coffee.

While Zeke was here, he caught me up on all the “news” (which, translated, is “gossip”) about who is moving into which building and when. It would appear that sometime in the next week, Charlie will have five new neighbors. When I tell him who they are, he will jump for joy. Not.

I finally got most of the toiletries from my trip replaced in their original receptacles, so that when my next trip comes up (whenever that may be) they will be ready to be refilled. Yay me.

Zeke doesn’t know when he’s moving, yet, but he doesn’t care. He’s not done stirring things up here. ;o]


3,681 posted on 06/27/2018 7:05:38 AM PDT by Monkey Face (If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~~ Mother Teresa ~~)
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To: ArGee

No, a girl named Maria who lives about a mile from here. I think Maria is going away to college in the fall, and her parents have said the rats can stay at their house, but they will not take care of them for her. Hence the need for a rat-sitter from August to December.


3,682 posted on 06/27/2018 7:24:37 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: Monkey Face

It’s nice that Zeke has a hobby. James and Vlad are doing end-of-year tests in the unusually peace and quiet. (Girls are at work, Frank and Kathleen at VBS, Pat contemplating calculus, Tom in bed.)

I made an appointment to get two new tires on the van tomorrow morning. The rear ones have almost no tread.


3,683 posted on 06/27/2018 7:26:24 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: Tax-chick

I feel like I’m never going to get all the letters written this week. I try to get them all written on Sundays but I’m still writing, and have one more to go. I write to my son, my Real Brother, my daughter (now that she has moved) and today I’ll start writing to James again, now that he’s married. And now that I have an address for him!

The first letter will contain detailed instructions for laundering the luncheon cloth, of course, and then the news. They’re still at Bryce Canyon, evidently in her family “cabin.” (The size of the cabins there would qualify as mansions, here!)

Oh golly, but I feel washed out. Just about the time I was ready to sleep yesterday, some big truck parked by one of the buildings close by and revved its engine. I’m sure it was doing something, but I saw no evidence of it when I walked to the truck this morning to go to Walmart.

So, now I’ll start my letter to James and Abbie by giving detailed instructions for the laundering of the cloth, including how to get grease stains out. Absolutely fool proof method of that!


3,684 posted on 06/27/2018 8:20:06 AM PDT by Monkey Face (If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~~ Mother Teresa ~~)
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To: Monkey Face

Sounds like a plan. I have to leave soon to get the kids from VBS. Then I have to pick Sally up at work. Then I’ll have to take her to the interview for the rat-sitting position.


3,685 posted on 06/27/2018 8:21:51 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: Tax-chick

*FACE PALM*

Repeating myself is not a good sign.

CFIDS is alive and well, and I’m not having fun with it.


3,686 posted on 06/27/2018 8:30:22 AM PDT by Monkey Face (If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~~ Mother Teresa ~~)
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To: Monkey Face

Hey, I often don’t remember what I’ve said, either.


3,687 posted on 06/27/2018 8:37:21 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: Monkey Face
Repeating myself is not a good sign.

Unless you work for the gubmint. Then it's a requirement.

3,688 posted on 06/27/2018 8:47:20 AM PDT by ArGee (Is Congress worse than MS-13? MS-13 is honest about wanting to rape, control, and kill.)
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To: Tax-chick

Yourz home is therefore declared a disaster-free zone. Yayyy!


3,689 posted on 06/27/2018 9:55:49 AM PDT by Silentgypsy ( “If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.”__Scorpion)
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To: ArGee

Hopefully, the exchange of anecdotal information eased her transition to a somewhat better place.


3,690 posted on 06/27/2018 9:58:56 AM PDT by Silentgypsy ( “If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.”__Scorpion)
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To: Silentgypsy

Obviously not meant to appropriate the latest fad use of the word “transition” nor an old-fashioned statement that “she’s in a better place.”

At least, I hope.


3,691 posted on 06/27/2018 10:02:28 AM PDT by ArGee (Is Congress worse than MS-13? MS-13 is honest about wanting to rape, control, and kill.)
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To: ArGee

I am the Queen of Cliches. I appropriate (or misappropriate, as appropriate) whatever I please because I was also the Queen of Slice and Dice.


3,692 posted on 06/27/2018 10:09:04 AM PDT by Silentgypsy ( “If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.”__Scorpion)
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To: Silentgypsy

We’re both royalty.

I’m the King of Choke.


3,693 posted on 06/27/2018 10:36:11 AM PDT by ArGee (Is Congress worse than MS-13? MS-13 is honest about wanting to rape, control, and kill.)
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To: Tax-chick

I’m always on the watch for things that, by themselves, probably mean nothing to anyone but me, but combine with other symptoms, they mean nothing good is coming this way.

So now, I’m going to sit and crochet, since I’ve come in from the heat. I had to send Charlie in because his face was getting red, again, but I don’t think he actually heard anything but, “I think its time to go in.”

He’s getting a lot of new neighbors (four in the two buildings in that courtyard) who were just friends before, so I don’t know how that’s going to work. We’re probably going to have some new people at the table. I sat on the other side this morning, after the first few times he slapped the bench, and he had to actually face me, meaning he couldn’t slap the bench. I don’t think he’ll slap the table, but I’ll wait to see.


3,694 posted on 06/27/2018 10:59:21 AM PDT by Monkey Face (If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~~ Mother Teresa ~~)
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To: ArGee

We’re probably related. May I address you as “Cuz”? In other news, gotta feed the cats.


3,695 posted on 06/27/2018 11:37:36 AM PDT by Silentgypsy ( “If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.”__Scorpion)
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To: Silentgypsy

I had a nap with my cats.


3,696 posted on 06/27/2018 12:02:06 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: Tax-chick

Didn’t Ben Franklin say that a nap creates two days out of one or something like that? Anyway, good to hear you cut communal zzz’s with kitteh. Jake, no?


3,697 posted on 06/27/2018 12:10:38 PM PDT by Silentgypsy ( “If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.”__Scorpion)
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To: Silentgypsy
May I address you as “Cuz”?

Me: Why?

SG: Cuz.

Me: What?

3,698 posted on 06/27/2018 12:19:37 PM PDT by ArGee (Is Congress worse than MS-13? MS-13 is honest about wanting to rape, control, and kill.)
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SG: You remind me of a man.
Cuz: What man?
SG: A man with a power.
etc. etc.
I really need to feed the cats. Powering down....


3,699 posted on 06/27/2018 12:23:36 PM PDT by Silentgypsy ( “If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.”__Scorpion)
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To: Silentgypsy

Jake was on the blanket with me, but Shannon was under the bed. I could hear her snoring.


3,700 posted on 06/27/2018 12:31:23 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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