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After Israel’s twelve-day war with Iran, the Iranians — humiliated by the amount of information the Israelis had acquired about their country that allowed them to assassinate leading military men and nuclear scientists, and to attack nuclear sites that had been kept top secret, such as the facility at Parchin, the Iranians began to flail about. In a fury, they rounded up hundreds of those they called Israeli spies, but there is reason to believe that their hysteria misled them, and the real spies are still methodically plying their trade inside Iran, while those picked up, the Iranians to their chagrin will discover, turn out to be innocent after all.
More on some of the comical episodes of Iranian counterespionage, and on the remarkable achievements of Israel’s spies, can be found here: “Iran’s Crazy Search for Spies,” by A.J. Caschetta, IPT News, July 3, 2025:
As Iranian officials flail about, arresting hundreds of innocent people and executing “dozens” of alleged spies, now is a good time to recall that among all the things the Islamic Republic is terrible at, its feeble attempts at counter-espionage stand out as especially inept. While IRGC and other regime goons search frantically in the most bizarre places for foreign and domestic enemies, an intricate espionage network has been growing right under their noses.
Israeli intelligence officers have been smuggling weapons, drones, communication gear, and even vehicles into Iran for years using “suitcases, trucks and tankers.” They and their Iranian agents have been spreading equipment throughout the Islamic Republic.
And what have Iran’s “crazy state” counterespionage professionals been doing?
In 2007, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported that “in recent weeks intelligence operatives have arrested 14 squirrels within Iran’s borders … The squirrels were carrying spy gear of foreign agencies, and were stopped before they could act, thanks to the alertness of our intelligence agencies.” While the “alert” intelligence agents were preoccupied with spy squirrels, real spies were busy downloading the Stuxnet supervirus into Iran’s enrichment facilities, causing their centrifuges to spin out of control.
Think of that. Squirrels, four of them, the Sciurine Spies who came in from the cold, carrying spy gear — they must have been very strong, those squirrels, but fortunately, the brilliant Iranian counter-spies managed to stop them before they could turn over that spy gear to agents inside Iran. A major threat, a close call, but the Iranians were there to foil the furry-tailed malefactors
In October 2008, Iranian authorities detained two pigeons caught “spying” near the Natanz nuclear facility. Oddly enough, it was not the first case of suspected avian eavesdropping around Natanz. The Etemad Melli newspaper quoted Commander Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moqadam who confirmed the arrests and added that weeks earlier, “a black pigeon was caught bearing a blue-coated metal ring with invisible strings.” As Iranian authorities investigated birds, nearby, undetected Mossad agents photographed the reactor site, mapped entrances and ventilation shafts, and took GPS coordinates.
Pigeons, yet, spying on the nuclear facility at Natanz, but discovered by alert Iranians such as Commander Moqadam. How did he know about the ”invisible strings”? The pigeons, of course, were arrested. I assume they were given a brief trial, then executed.
During the drought of 2017-18, Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali accused Israel of “working to ensure clouds entering Iranian skies are unable to release rain.” Jalali, then the head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization, claimed that “Joint teams from Israel and one of the neighboring countries make the clouds entering Iran barren. Moreover, we are faced with the cases of cloud theft and snow theft.” While Iranian generals looked to the clouds, down on earth, Israeli spies catalogued the regime’s “safe houses.”
Those diabolical Israelis, making sure that all the clouds entering the skies of Iran would not be able to release any rain. And what’s more, Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali has insisted that there was “cloud theft and snow theft,” which must have been one more dirty trick by those preternaturally wicked Israelis. Quaere: How exactly do you steal clouds? Or snow?
In February 2018, Hassan Firuzabadi, a senior military advisor to Khamenei, boasted about Iran’s success in detecting Western spies with an anecdote about a group of people who had infiltrated Iran with “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.”
General Firuzabadi, the former chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, couldn’t resist a taking a parting shot, boisterously claiming that Western spy agencies “failed every time.”
Think of all those lizards and chameleons who were smuggled into Iran by Mossad, because the reptiles’ skin “attracts atomic waves.” Amazing, but true. Say, what is an “atomic wave”? Anyway, they were like the wands of the rhabdomancers, their skin changing texture, or color, or something, when the reptiles were brought close to an uranium mine or an uranium enrichment plant. Amazing, but true. How did the Iranians manage to ferret out those reptiles and their handlers? Try as the Israelis might, it’s obvious they are outmatched, foiled at every turn by Iranian counter-spies.
There is no genocide in Gaza.
There is no “Palestine”.
It would have been great if YOUR parents had been gassed.
you seek reparations is this your mindsets? this is 2025 not 1948 and I do not think Jews post WW2 would persecute any group
The struggle for survival for Jews is too intense and since you are not part of that group it’s ok to spew lies and hatred?
pure satanic ignorance
There is no Palestine. There never has been a Palestine. It was name created by the Romans 2000 years ago.
Nobody wants the Turdistinians. They are a troubled bunch of Arabs who only want to murder everyone, mainly Jews and Americans.
So I guess we will have to put up with your latest anti-Jew meme, the “persecution of Christians” in 1948 Israel. I got news for you. Israel was founded as a Jewish state. For Jews. Is that so hard to understand? Obviously it is for you.
Look, folks here are starting to ridicule you. They appear to be sick of your sh*t. You aren’t making any friends. Nobody wants a Jew Hating nazi on their site.
I can’t wait until you make contact with Huckabee. That will be fun.
You are calling on all Americans to boycott Israel? Can you say delusions of grandeur?
I have noticed that no one ever speaks to your “facts”. That seems to be a real problem for you. Pisses you off doesn’t it.. Well there is a reason.
1) You are a rabid nazi jew hater.
2) Could it be that no one takes you remotely seriously because you are a joke, a clown and an assling.
3) You are a joke, a nothing, and a Muslim scumbag..
OK, cue the cheap lowrent bathhouse humor from our rezident assling. That’s all he knows how to do.
Indeed.
Who signs posts and missives with his own name? …a needless redundancy in light of the public name field ?
This is likely a piece of Muslim shit.
Who signs posts and missives with his own name?
Obviously a dumb sh*t like Sebastion.
BTW, I’m not sure that is his real name. I would bet it is Achmed, Abdul, Khalil, or Mohammy.
…or Arachnid …
You really do lie about everything don’t you. I hate Christians? Really? I’m at church every weekend. One lie.
Trump is furious about this? Really? Is he talking about it? Another lie.
My lifestyle? What lifestyle? C’mon doucheboy. Say it. You are already in so deep it’ll be tough to climb out
But please. Go after Huckabee. You can tell him your bathouse jokes. I’m sure he would love to hook up with a lowlife Jew Hating muslim like you.
You must have autism because you can’t seem to remember anything you write.
Yeah boycott Israel. Good luck shmuck.
You see, even if you manage to talk to some low level intern who works for him, we can send him everything you’ve ever written on this site. Now how do you think that will go over doucheboy.
My God, how stupid are you.
Someone should start a “rumor” in Iran “Isn’t it amazing how so many people and places can be targeted by Israel but the ayatollahs never suffer any damages? Did they make a DEAL”?? Let that get out and see if anyone cares in Iran!!
“I’m calling on all Americans to boycott Israel the fake 1948 created Israel. I will be leading the charge, and have already contacted Mr. huckabees office.”
“CH-CH-CH-CHAAAARRRRRGE! Boycott Israel America. CH-CH-CH-CHAAAARRRRRGE!
Yes folks, I’m contacting Mike Huckabee, because I know how much he hates Israel and Jews and he’ll listen to me. Never mind that the BoycottDivestSanctions boycott failed spectacularly a few years ago. My boycott will succeed.”
Well assling, I laughed and cried, and laughed and cried some more. I sure hope you succeed and your picture gets splashed all over the place. You are just the type of little nazi Huckabee wants to hang out with.
Then we will know that stupid face of yours and you will get a can of whoopass you deserve, since you are desperate to take me and Jeff on together in an MMA gym.
Do you have the weight?
thumbs down for falling into a racist rant is as bad as Sebastian’s antisemitism – Goldstein, you do not help the plight of our people with racism – stick to facts
How many women told you to grow up and you never listened but took your ball and wept all the way home?
No doubt you live alone –
Jimmy Carter was. n°gg@r.
Bob Marley was a Zionist.
A stigmatized word is appropriate for anti-Zionists.
And given that the word “amaleck” is now archaic, I use a more modern stigmatized word.
Indeed the ignorant hating Iran leaders top down are paranoid fools of their own making.
Reading this article “The Conversation” movie with Gene Hackman that I saw in the old Venice Movie Theater on Lincoln Blvd when it came out in the 1970’s where the character played by Gene Hackman tore up his apartment looking for the bugs.
Those weren’t just any squirrels. They were flying squirrels❗