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.
Good morning. How are you today?
Really slow, thank you. Hopefully, your aches have eased up!
I’m feeling better than yesterday. For my next thing, I plan to make some banana bread for the Cub Scouts bake sale tomorrow.
Glad you’re feeling better. I cooked egg noodles for the stroganoff Mr. Sg is going to make when he gets home from church. He volunteered to help install the new security system there. I also cooked alkalinizing food for the dogs. Poor little Chainsaw developed bladder stones so she’s on prescription dog food. They ran out at the vet and there was an lag period for the online order so I looked up how to make it and give it to Crowbar, too. We’ll give them the homemade stuff until we run out; then Crowbar can revert to his regular food and Chainsaw can eat the prescription stuff from Hill’s.
Best wishes to Chainsaw and Crowbar! I made beef stroganoff for Vlad’s birthday a few weeks ago. They didn’t notice that I used only half the meat the recipe called for, because it was too expensive.
The local Seventh Day Adventist Church holds free cooking classes and they maintain that we don’t need all the protein we consume. They all seem to glow with good health, so....
It’s a highly-disputed topic ... but $8/pound for beef isn’t confusing at all!
It’s all in the definition of ‘slightly’..
1 mouse evicted from guardshack.
If there’s one there’s more...
Yes.
When my mother was trying to feed a family of seven on mere pennies a week, it was common for her to grind carrots and/or potatoes and put them in meatloaf. One carrot and/or one potato would extend that meatloaf and we never left the table hungry.
Sometimes, if she didn't have those handy (just before payday) she would add rice to the meatloaf. Most of the time, we never knew that it was for economical reasons. We just knew it tasted good and we left the table full.
For those of us that played in the foothills or our friend's orchard all day, filling our stomachs was vastly important!
That little fur person looks like his eyes just opened for the first time! SQUEE!
She’s a girl and lives in Sweden.
Oh. My mistake Miss Swedenfrau! (Or whatever it’s called!)
This is Friday. I will take the BB SUV in to the Muffler Shop at 0750, and hope to pick it up two hours later. You should see the hugh box the brake pads came in. HAHAHAHA! Six boxes of brake pads could have fit into it with ease. Instead, I got the little box and two yards of air pillows.
You can use the air pillows to stretch out for a nap, and then put the box out to attract cats.
The cats that I would attract here are the feral cats, and they spray on my security door. No thanks. I know when they’re here at night because the motion light comes on.
The current manager of this place is about the biggest coward I’ve ever seen. Since he’s been here, the resident population has become something straight off the streets of LA or NYC. Two drug dealers, at least one pimp and a traveling hooker who makes the rounds of the old men here.
The pimp has beaten this girl, and has forced her to OD in his apartment, then tried to beat up the guy that she went to for help. And Casey will do nothing. There is a woman who had five complaints before Casey took over and was at the point of being evicted. That was three years ago. He’s done nothing. But in his monthly meetings, he says, “See something, say something.” Why? He’s not going to do anything.
But don’t get me started! LOL!
Morning. I accepted the job offer. I’ll be gainfully employed as soon as we finish the background check and such.
Mount a laser also.
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