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.
W00t!
I was focused on getting the genealogy for my Real Brother ready for mailing, so you can have the 00!
Frappy Hieday and a weat greekend to all!
You too, SG.
And now it’s time for the penguin on your television set to explode. (BOOM)
I keep mine outside the house. They don’t get on well with the cats and they are rather messy, but to each his own. BTW, if your IHR skills are nearly as good as your IPR skills, you’d be able to get the python to engage with the gator and then you could exit stage left betcha betcha.
Greetings from The FARM at Mintwood, where I’ve begun relaxing. It’s beginning to feel like naptime already.
I’m not sure about IHR and IPR, but I do have a memory for arcane things, such as this:
I’m being swallowed by a boa constrictor.
I’m being swallowed by a boa constrictor.
I’m being swallowed by a boa constrictor,
And I don’t like it very much.
Oh, no! (Oh, no!) He’s up to my toe. (He’s up to my toe.) (echo throughout)
Oh, gee! He’s up to my knee.
Oh, fiddle! He’s up to my middle.
Oh, heck! He’s up to my neck.
Oh, fred!
I learned that one from the offspring. Memories....
That link reminds me of the song about the country store-laundromat-bait shop-ammo dump-grocery.
Akshully, If’n I could photo-shop I’d have the main cane part a shotgun and put an American flag out of the top.
I like the way you think—functional yet patriotic. Perhaps when you get more free time, you could become our interior-decor-and-landscaping consultant.
One other thing: in TN, it’s illegal to kill a snake. Any snake. (When moving or vacationing in an unfamiliar jurisdiction, it’s always a good idea to learn what’s acceptable, etc.) Go figure. Anyway, have a wonderful weekend!
Then why on earth are you post to FR??? Do you not understand the word “vacation” means to get away and relax??
LOL! I think you should sleep in and nap and nap and sleep in until it’s time for you to leave for home. :o]
I suppose http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3678243/posts is too funny to move into.
What a good idea. But I’m not quite that tired.
Some days, I am... :o|
Nothing is “too funny” for the UT. We just need the proper motivation (and these days, permission!) in order to Make It So.
I like it.
Yes. It pays to be prepared.
After all, you never know when you’ll be called upon to braise a python.. ;-)
There is this issue with that device. Many are the persons who weigh more than 80kg...
I came, I saw, I forgot what I was doing, retraced my steps,
got lost on the way back, now I have no idea what’s going on.
;-)
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