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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: Silentgypsy

Joo-dee, Joo-dee, Joo-dee.


3,701 posted on 06/27/2018 12:50:13 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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To: ArGee

As I re-read that I realize a Cary Grant impression doesn’t come out well in print.


3,702 posted on 06/27/2018 1:37:50 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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To: ArGee

Nope.


3,703 posted on 06/27/2018 2:08:24 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: ArGee

That’s OK. I heard it in my mind’s eye. My mind’s ear? Whatever.


3,704 posted on 06/27/2018 8:52:07 PM PDT by Silentgypsy ( “If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.”__Scorpion)
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To: Tax-chick; fanfan; ColdOne; Cyber Liberty; null and void; Anoreth; Monkey Face; ...

This tiny kitten has no tail.

3,705 posted on 06/28/2018 2:35:29 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: Tax-chick

“Dis my fing. You no touch.”

Good morning. I think its Thursday. I’m not sure because life is funny that way.


3,706 posted on 06/28/2018 3:19:19 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

It is Thursday. My calendar says so. Also my computer.

I have about an hour before I take the little children and the carpool riders to VBS. Then I’m going to get new rear tires on the van. The shop is conveniently located near the bank and a Harris Teeter, so I’ll do some other business while waiting.


3,707 posted on 06/28/2018 4:18:17 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: Tax-chick

catnip....it's a helluva drug

3,708 posted on 06/28/2018 4:24:46 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

Aw, cutes!


3,709 posted on 06/28/2018 4:28:15 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: Tax-chick

I just checked the medical website and was met with this news: Cholesterol - 142; HDL cholesterol - 66; Triglycerides - 52.

Not bad for an ol’ broad. No meds to keep it that low, either, on a diet of meat and dairy. Yay, me.

At 0650, I’ll drive to Walgreen’s and get the latest in prescriptions. While I was in St George, the portable nebulizer was clogged up for some reason, and I wasn’t getting any of the meds I was trying to take. I took it apart and borrowed some rubbing alcohol and cleaned it up. No wonder I was so cranky about the goings on... I figure I missed at least nine doses.

I told my son when I get tired I get stupid and when I get stupid I say stupid things and when that happens, there’s no going back. Time to dump me unceremoniously into the nearest bed-like receptacle. Looking back, I think the lack of meds had as much to do with it as anything else.


3,710 posted on 06/28/2018 4:31:04 AM PDT by Monkey Face (If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~~ Mother Teresa ~~)
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To: Covenantor

That makes your tongue hang out for sure! LOL!


3,711 posted on 06/28/2018 4:32:18 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

Congrats on your good blood! Mine is healthy, too.

Off to VBS in a few minutes.


3,712 posted on 06/28/2018 5:12:59 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: Tax-chick
This tiny kitten has no tail.

My wife has been watching documentaries about WW II on YouTube. She told me last night that the education of the young in Nazi Germany included the information that black people have tails. Apparently one black soldier liberating Germany had to take some steps to correct the misinformation.

3,713 posted on 06/28/2018 5:55:08 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: Monkey Face

Have a Snickers. You’re not yourself when you’re hungry.


3,714 posted on 06/28/2018 5:56:25 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

My sugar was a little high, but it isn’t worrisome. Usually, it’s around 90 or less, so I just need to make sure I stop with the hypoglycemia roller coaster.

I’m thinking doctors label everyone over 60 as “prediabetic” because it showed up for the first time on this test. I’m not sure the blood had anything to do with it (the entire medical record is there for me to look at, including the last OV I had) but I’ll make sure that I stick to the diet a little more closely. Losing weight will help. And most of that will happen when I move. :o]


3,715 posted on 06/28/2018 6:20:41 AM PDT by Monkey Face (If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~~ Mother Teresa ~~)
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To: ArGee

Amusing. Funny if a whole unit did it.


3,716 posted on 06/28/2018 6:24:48 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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Speaking of the Snickers ad ...


3,717 posted on 06/28/2018 7:38:07 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

Better.


3,718 posted on 06/28/2018 8:31:44 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: NicknamedBob; ArGee

Afternoon, y’all. Back from setting up the pool for the swim meet, for which the weather omens are not looking good. Next, I’m going to cut up some melons.


3,719 posted on 06/28/2018 12:51:48 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: Tax-chick

For whatever reason that just made me think of the swimming pool incident in “Passengers.” While I have some questions about the physics involved the movie making and the sense of imminent peril was pretty stunning.

Anyway, I hope there are no gravity incidents at the meet. Weather is bad enough.


3,720 posted on 06/28/2018 1:24:50 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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