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Former Iran army chief dies of Covid-19: reports
MSN ^ | 9/4/21

Posted on 09/04/2021 10:41:03 AM PDT by Impala64ssa

Former Iranian armed forces chief Hassan Firouzabadi, who once accused Western nations of spying on the country using lizards, has died of coronavirus aged 70, local media reported on Friday.
Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami praised Firouzabadi's "continuous efforts" to defend "the sacred system of the Islamic Republic of Iran", in a statement published on the Guards' Sepahnews website. A trained doctor, Firouzabadi joined the Basij Islamic volunteer militia during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88.
Serving in administrative roles, he swiftly rose up its ranks before being named head of the armed forces in September 1989 by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, remaining in the post until 2016. Iran's armed forces chief has authority over both the regular army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
That made Firouzabadi one of the main architects of Iranian military support for Baghdad and Damascus in their battles against the Islamic State group and other jihadist movements. Replaced by Mohammad Hossein Bagheri at the head of the armed forces, Firouzabadi then served as Khamenei's military adviser until his death. The Fars news agency reported that he died after contracting Covid-19. In 2018, during an international face-off over the death in jail of Iranian-Canadian environmentalist Kavous Seyed Emami, Firouzabadi accused Western countries of using lizards and chameleons as "nuclear spies" to "find uranium mines and atomic activity" in Iran.

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Those *bleeping* Zionist controlled shape shifting lizards gave him the 'VID. I suppose this terrorist was never a fan of The Doors



🎶People are strange..🎶
1 posted on 09/04/2021 10:41:03 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

3...2...1...it was the JUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!


2 posted on 09/04/2021 10:43:46 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: Impala64ssa

Never mind the bullet hole to the head or the body being blowed up into pieces… It was the Covid, trust us!


3 posted on 09/04/2021 10:45:47 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Impala64ssa

He died of old age


4 posted on 09/04/2021 10:50:44 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Impala64ssa

5 posted on 09/04/2021 10:51:45 AM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Maskot
lizards and chameleons as "nuclear spies"

Totally doable with miniaturization tech.

Some paranoid folks really do have enemies out to get them!
6 posted on 09/04/2021 10:52:04 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Mr. K

Tom Selleck as one of the Sacketts about old timer sidekick played by Ben Johnson. After a furious gun fight gauntlet through town, outnumbered but then victorious, Selleck propped up Johnson who had his leg tied up to stop bleeding.

Asked “Is he gonna die?”
Selleck: “Naw. He ain’t gonna die. He’s too damn mean.”


7 posted on 09/04/2021 10:56:08 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: cgbg

Maybe he saw the lizards in the bar scenes of the Ralph Steadman illustrations to some Hunter S. Thompson books.

The Iranian just couldn’t unsee them. Went nuts.


8 posted on 09/04/2021 10:57:58 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Impala64ssa

“In recent weeks, intelligence operatives have arrested 14 squirrels within Iran’s borders,” state-sponsored news agency IRNA reported. “The squirrels were carrying spy gear of foreign agencies, and were stopped before they could act, thanks to the alertness of our intelligence services.”

BTW - doesn’t matter how he died as long as he’s dead.


9 posted on 09/04/2021 10:59:12 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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Good!


10 posted on 09/04/2021 11:06:16 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: Impala64ssa

Thanks Covid.


11 posted on 09/04/2021 11:57:06 AM PDT by TexasCruzin (Trump is the man. #TrumpPence16)
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To: Impala64ssa

Well... bye!


12 posted on 09/04/2021 12:00:53 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Impala64ssa
Former Iranian armed forces chief Hassan Firouzabadi, who once accused Western nations of spying on the country using lizards


13 posted on 09/04/2021 12:05:13 PM PDT by Pollard (#*&% Communism)
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To: Pollard

Well played


14 posted on 09/04/2021 12:15:11 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Impala64ssa

On July 4, 2006 he attended a summit in Damascus, Syria that had to do with the subsequent Israel-Hezbollah War.


15 posted on 09/04/2021 12:23:16 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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He made that trip to Damascus with Iran’s Majlis speaker Ali Laranjani / Larinjani.


16 posted on 09/04/2021 12:29:05 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Larijani was previously Iran’s top nuclear negotiator.


17 posted on 09/04/2021 12:31:32 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
When in Iran, insist that the seal on the bottled water be intact, and have no mullah fingerprints on it.

18 posted on 09/05/2021 6:05:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

What a shame./s


19 posted on 09/05/2021 6:41:17 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (不要相信中国。中国是个混蛋 "don't trust China. China is azzhoe" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hicC53AhZ6Y)
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To: Chode

Lizards, chameleons and Jooos! Oh, my.


20 posted on 09/05/2021 6:43:22 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (不要相信中国。中国是个混蛋 "don't trust China. China is azzhoe" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hicC53AhZ6Y)
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