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.
When you google “Francis Bacon,” one of the “frequently asked questions” that pops up is, “Why is bacon important?”
I didn’t read the answer, so I don’t know what importance Google wants me to ascribe to bacon.
An ad meme on FB had the symbol for pork and the caption was that people who ate pork didn’t explode. My friend in SLC said to carry a can of Spam. My response was: Sure, Earle. I can see it all now: me with a can of Spam in my hand, arm extended, yelling beware, you blower-upper! I know how to use this!
And apropos of nothing, I have some bacon in the freezer. I’m thinking of cutting the package in half and giving the larger half to Charlie. My need for bacon often dwindles in direct proportion to the difficulty in letting it thaw and then cooking it. By the time it’s thawed, I’ve lost the desire to eat it.
You could use the can of Spam as a bludgeon.
Yes indeed. And an elephant as a walking trebuchet. (As per an earlier conversation.)
The letters I intended to write only got half-done when I ran out of steam. I had to come up with a game plan for tomorrow. And the rest of the week. I’m thinking I have it, but I’ll have to wait and see. At least the letters are ready to go.
Life is good if one doesn’t weaken!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3667508/posts
This is a very nice sermon to encourage you.
I didn’t get any letters done, yet. I’ve done laundry, though.
Laundry, tomorrow. And now, I’m off to watch the blanket show.
:o])
I’m back from the wilds of Huntingdon County, PA and enforced radio silence due to lack of signal.
Tipton T. Longcat is not speaking to me because I left.
Happy Monday Claws!
Because you were gone for-ever, and never coming back, though he waited and watched for you. Now that you're home, he is so relieved he is angry! Simple!
Ooooohhhh! Pink Vel-Cro! Yikes!
Sounds sort of like Frank. Or Anoreth’s Dog.
Great picture! Dark cat in the sun ... he must be very warm.
You never know until faced with the actual thing, because unless extended, the Vel-Cro is harmless. I had a cat once that sharpened his claws as he walked on the carpet. You could actually hear him coming as the claws would make a slight sound as he pulled each foot out of the nap. His name was Evinrude, and he was a rescue at a campground we hosted. He was very tiny and was covered in fleas and had a bad infestation of ear mites. The shelter said they would put him down.
I said, no. Tell me what I need for the mites and I’ll go get a bottle of flea bath. oh. my. stars. The fleas visibly left that tiny little fur ball by the hundreds. He was white and orange and would play catch. If you threw a small ball (space ball) he would go get it and bring it back for you to toss again. :o]
He would also ride on the back of the seat in the truck, so the sun could hit him when we came to Vegas from St George. He was something else!
Shannon catches her claws in the carpet. Then we trim them and she calls us horrible names.
Evinrude had the loudest purr of any cat I ever had or saw. He was so laid back it wasn’t even funny. How he kept his balance on the back of the truck seat is still a mystery. He didn’t straddle it.
I miss all the critters I even had the honor to care for.
Me, too. Often we think we would like to have another greyhound, but when Anoreth’s Dog visits, we remember that we don’t have room for a big dog!
The 13th is when I go for my cataract surgery. I don’t understand why there isn’t “any” preparation except for dilation this time when the last time, the prep time was two weeks and I had to use specific eye drops several times a day.
They said if I have dark glasses, I can drive home. Simple.
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