Report: Cigarettes tainted with pig blood smuggled into Iran in Western plot
Iran's Society for Fighting Smoking says contraband Marlboros contaminated with pig hemoglobin and unspecified nuclear material.
By The Associated Press Tags: Israel; news Iran Iran nuclearAn Iranian official says cigarettes smuggled into Iran have been tainted with pig blood and nuclear material as part of a Western conspiracy.
The semiofficial Mehr news agency quotes Mohammad Reza Madani from the Society for Fighting Smoking as saying contraband Marlboros have been contaminated with pig hemoglobin and unspecified nuclear material.
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Madani claims Philip Morris International, which sells Marlboro outside the U.S., is "led by Zionists" and deliberately exports tainted cigarettes.
He provided no evidence or information about the confiscated cigarettes. Friday's report also gave no details on how the contamination was discovered.
Tehran, which often alleges Western conspiracies, says 20 billion cigarettes are smuggled into Iran every year.
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that's funny, I thought Philip Morris was owned by KKK white supremacists!
The Society to Fight Cancer must be mad that they didn't think up this one first!
Iranians are pushing their own tobacco to their market. Iran cannot sell thier tobback or compete with other tobacco manifacturers, so they end up blaming the west , I wonder why they did not blame the earhquakes on the west too. I think they are slowing down!!!
Are there no limits to their stupidity and ignorance? There's no need to answer that.
this reminds me of the Sepoy rebellion of 1857 where Muslims rioted over the rumor that new bullets of the Enfield rifles had pork grease. Next week they will say Infidels defiled a Mosque, that's provocation #14 I think in the Jihad play book.
Paranoid antisemites live in every country. Of course, not everyone believes conspiracy theories, even ones about the Jewish Zionists, so people may just go on smoking as a choice they make. I am a little wary about Jewish Zionist conspiracy theories, which can be used in a bad way, so I can only think and hope not everyone believes them.
going on in Turkey also as part of health campaign. why not fill it with conspiracy theories. Who would smoke pig blood? Wonder if Turkey is hearing this also? They are real smokers.
Oh dear how George Orwell this is
The West - as defined herein the US and Israel - are getting desperate.
The seed of Islamic Revolution was planted by the lies of THE GREATEST LIAR, Khomeni... What do you expect from The HEART of International Terorism? It's the TREE of Lie, watered by HUMAN BLOOD! As an Iranian living inside of Iran, I see everyone happy to hear Military Option on Iran... Everything matches LAST DAYS OF SADDAM...
and lovingly escorted from the Air France plane by its Captain to the tumultous welcome in Teheran