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.
And on another note, what would python coders do if faced with the genuine article??
Run?
Most likely.
I seem to have developed the hiccups, and I don’t know how to undevelop them.
So I’m going to bed to try and relax the hiccups away. The Wednesday train is coming back today, from the sounds of it...
Tomorrow, I’m going to get my prescription, then come home and find out what the Suits want to tell me about the Un-lease.
In between the two of those things, I’m going to copy the news clippings that Charlie has so diligently cut out of the paper for me in recent months. I wasn’t able to tell him I was going to the office in the morning, because he was testy and wanted to make like a tree and leave. So I’ll go at 0800 and hope I can be seen first. The manager’s illness seems to have put a monkey wrench in things.
So, g’nite fans! I’ll see all y’all bright (or dark) and early in the morning!
Good luck with all that. I have another Cub Scouts planning meeting tonight.
Well, she is a shoulder kitty.
Haven’t had one in awhile.
Being that she is an all black long hair kitty, she might go full “conquer” mode if she heard.
A thousand apologies for the oversight—I shoulda pinged you when the pythons popped up. I recall the herpetological and gastronomical lessons you gave us about the snapping turtles that injured our neighbor’s duck.
We have two longhairs, and Mr. Sg bought a furminator-type brush at Wal Mart with rubbery, rubbery-ended bristle-type things that the guys just love. It actually seems to prevent matting as well as work some of the less serious ones out. They weren’t too crazy about the older ones that had the metallic bristles with the rubber-coated ends.
My old Agnes liked to be vacuumed with the pointy-thing attachment.
Hey, I helped train those lizards.
I have to use a hair comb on her fur, she gets bent out of shape over the brush if I use it.
(But my missus can use the brush, but not the comb.)
My kitty has a weird coat, it has a downy undercoat and coarser guard hairs.
The undercoat will mat up if I don’t stay on top of it.
And sometimes it will mat up in an astonishing shirt amount of time.
Minutes, honest minutes.
I had a long-haired kitty before, and while she did mat up once in awhile she didn’t do it like that.
Da majick is in da kitteh!
Good morning. Another day when I don’t want to Adult, but at least its Friday.
How was your meeting last night?
The meeting was nice. There was Diet Pepsi. I had some useful discussions with several people and collected important information.
Some extra kittehs, because it’s Friday and I’m having to mop the floors already because the Overnight People left a spill. They were drinking vodka and grapefruit juice.
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