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.
Yep. All it takes is one to plow into a crowded bus stop and we all have to pay for it.
Uh...that’s usually an illegal alien trick, that plowing into bus stops.
Vegas is not where I want to live. I DID live there, because it’s where I found a job, but when I moved to Henderson, I came to realize how corrupt and evil Vegas really is.
I can’t leave too soon...
Yep. That’s about the age where water and pit stops are pretty much mandatory things. About all that can be done is to make sure she’s comfortable and getting the things she needs.
I’d like to see a pic of her, if you can do it! I bet she’s pretty!
Our vet will give her some antibiotics, and I’ll get a picture tomorrow. I might have been suspicious of all the times she was stopping to pee, but I thought she was just making sure all the other dogs know she’s here.
Aww, sleepy squee...
Good morning. I’m listening to a show on one of the PBS channels about religion in civilization. Interesting to see how other people view Deity.
My hairbrushes are soaking in warm soda water to clean and disinfect them, but I’m not sure about the integrity of the stopper in the bathroom sink. Maintenance is pretty much non-existent, these days, unless its an emergency, and even then it almost takes a threat of getting the health department involved before they will fix a toilet or the A/C.
Greg is out of the hospital and sounds good, but he will stay with his girlfriend at least until today’s dialysis is done. (She’s on O2 24-7. As we say in Vegas, “Aren’t they a pair to draw to?”)
After the angst and depression of the last few days, I feel almost hung over. And it ain’t over, yet...
Good morning. Every time I turn around, I find another laptop, Nintendo, cell phone, or wires and whizzers attached thereto. It’s more annoying than the pets!
I suspect it’s because you now have a full contingent of Tax-chicklets in the Manor House.
When I went in to take the brushes out of the soda/water, the water wouldn’t go down the drain. Lucky me. I got to plunge out the drain in the bathroom sink. *gag* *choke*
The plumbing company that has the contract for the new construction is going to make a fortune.
The girls aren’t up yet. This really annoys me. Year after year, the one thing I ask is for people to get up in the morning to go over *their* schedule and address *their* demands.
When I finish breakfast, I’ll take the dog for a walk.
Dog knows the advantage of an open schedule. When no one else is in the line, your needs are paramount!
Is it time for Tough Love? Let them flounder in their own laziness for a time or two? Make vehicles unavailable because “others” needed them for other things?
Easier said than done.
The dog will be much more appreciative of your attentions, anyway. :o]
Thank you, Bob.
Got any 2s?
Anyway, at least once in south Florida it was a senior who couldn’t really see.
But I figure if they keep giving licenses to teens who can’t really think then what’s the big deal?
If getting up in the morning were beneficial it would be illegal.
The elderly are less likely to be texting or posting pictures of themselves on Instagram while driving.
Drama Queen left her phone at home accidentally on Tuesday, and she found it so liberating that she left it on purpose on Wednesday. Encouraging signs of common sense!
Untethered?
For some reason, it reminds me of a Rugrats episode, when Tommy discovered the joys of being unclothed. Liberating, no doubt.
So far, my evidence is only anecdotal, but I think I’ve noticed a trend; smart phones make dumb people.
Such studies as have been done support your anecdotal intuition.
I just feel I have to say that supporting Donald Trump because Kanye West says they are Dragon Energy Brothers is just as stupid as supporting Donald Trump because you want to have sex with his wife.
Thank you for listening; that is all. Now I have to take James and Pat to the corner clinic to get their pre-camp checkups because they have Webelos Adventure Camp training this weekend.
I wondered how long it would take before someone posted this from "The Fifth Element"
Well that came out of nowhere.
For the tribally-minded, like former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Kanye’s observation gives the permission of borrowed authority to the transgression of thinking outside the swamp.
Once people realize that Trump’s actions, in line with his intentions as stated, have benefited them to their everlasting surprise, it becomes possible to think and express thoughts that were previously forbidden.
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