Abrabanel: Musings on the Jewish condition

A newspaper in Iran reported that security forces around one of the country’s nuclear sites arrested spy pigeons.

One of the pigeons was caught near a rose water production plant in the city of Kashan in Isfahan province, the report cited an unnamed informed source as saying, adding that some metal rings and invisible strings were attached to the bird.

“Early this month, a black pigeon was caught bearing a blue-coated metal ring, with invisible strings,” the source was quoted as saying of the second pigeon.

The Iranian government denied the report, but it never denied last year’s news that its security forces arrested 14 squirrels for the same crime.

Reuters reports the court proceedings in London against a British spy for Iran in Afghanistan:

LONDON (Reuters) – A British soldier became a spy for Iran after becoming angry at being passed over for promotion and what he perceived as racial discrimination, a court heard on Monday.

Corporal Daniel James, 45, contacted Iranian officials in Kabul while working as an interpreter for General David Richards, the British commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, prosecutors told the Old Bailey.

“The allegation in this case is that during the latter part of 2006, the defendant’s loyalty to this country wavered and his loyalties turned to Iran, the country of his birth,” prosecutor Mark Dennis said. …

He was arrested in December 2006, a few months after contact had been made, so that his activities were “nipped in the bud,” Dennis said.