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Iran accuses West of using lizards for nuclear spying
www.timesofisrael.com ^ | 02/13/2018 | By AFP and Michael Bachner

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ayatollahalikhamenei; canada; hassanfiruzabadi; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; iran; iraniannukes; israel; jerusalem; kavousseyedemami; koalaoil; lebanon; letshavejerusalem; lizard; molassesmiasma; penguinhumor; reptialianespionage; spy; undeadthread; undeadthreadhere; waronterror; workingdogs
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To: Salamander

FRiends of yours?


21 posted on 02/13/2018 7:42:35 AM PST by LilAngel (FReeping on a cell phone is like making Christmas dinner in an Easy Bake Oven)
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To: null and void

"....stupid kid, it's not like he's never seen it before"

22 posted on 02/13/2018 7:42:40 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Tenacious 1
Iran's Lizard Spymasters


23 posted on 02/13/2018 7:43:21 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (The only trannie I want to see is a Muncie 4 Speed M-22 Rock Crusher)
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To: publius911

No, but we’re not completely heartless. At least they’re halal. Bwahaha!


24 posted on 02/13/2018 7:46:34 AM PST by LilAngel (FReeping on a cell phone is like making Christmas dinner in an Easy Bake Oven)
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To: Red Badger

I love this. Just proposed it for the new Undead Thread.


25 posted on 02/13/2018 8:00:59 AM PST by Tax-chick (Harvey Weinstein was married to a beautiful model.)
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To: Red Badger
This sounds like a rant from the Iranian equivalent to Hunter S. Thompson.


26 posted on 02/13/2018 8:02:02 AM PST by Teflonic (tt)
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To: Red Badger

Would you mind terribly if this was the new home of the Undead Thread?


27 posted on 02/13/2018 8:06:33 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Red Badger

28 posted on 02/13/2018 8:07:33 AM PST by samtheman (Sessions must return from his alternate universe to his real job in the real world.)
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To: Darksheare

Works for me!....................


29 posted on 02/13/2018 8:09:15 AM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: Red Badger
Those wacky mullahs. A thread from 2007...

Iranians arrest 14 squirrels for spying

30 posted on 02/13/2018 8:12:41 AM PST by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Red Badger; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Red Badger. The best US response would be, "lizard spies? Only a superstitious nitwit would believe there are lizard spies."

31 posted on 02/13/2018 8:14:13 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Bogey78O
It raises the question though of precisely why would they need to keep secret a program they’ve claimed to be fully open and honest about.

I am not sure they ever claimed or agreed to be "fully open and honest about" anything anything. Obama's deal did not really require anything of Iran that precluded them from keeping secrets. I think Iran is required to do their own inspections to make sure that Iran is compliant with Iran's deal. Then, I think they are supposed to report the findings to us.

Yes, it is all laughable, including the lizards. I think it would be in the best interest of all the world if Iran and NK were to have a series of Nuclear accidents (read: accidental detonations in launch silos).

32 posted on 02/13/2018 8:15:35 AM PST by Tenacious 1
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To: Red Badger

The Iranians should also be worried about the Dung Beetles the Israelis sent to seek out all the Shite Clerics.


33 posted on 02/13/2018 8:15:55 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: Red Badger

Iran should worry more about the Israeli dung beetles that have been directed towards all the Shite Clerics.


34 posted on 02/13/2018 8:16:22 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: EinNYC

It is the Geico Gecko..selling insurance has always been a front. He didn’t get the elequent accent in the desert, did he?


35 posted on 02/13/2018 8:17:19 AM PST by richardtavor
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To: csvset

Good point!


36 posted on 02/13/2018 8:20:21 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


37 posted on 02/13/2018 8:30:55 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Red Badger

Thanks!


38 posted on 02/13/2018 8:57:45 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Red Badger

Hmm ,I haven’t seen the Geico Gecko for awhile


39 posted on 02/13/2018 9:03:07 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger; sionnsar; abigailsmybaby; A CA Guy; airborne; Aloysius88; Altariel; Americanwolf; ...
We will not be on a Zot Thread this month.

This month we will be Spying on Iran using Lizards!
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40 posted on 02/13/2018 9:08:30 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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