The IRGC’s Frog lickers
The IRGC’s Froglickers Frog poison! It’s been revealed that Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny’s cause of death was epibatidine, an exotic poison derived from secretions of South American frogs. Right-thinking human beings will be appalled by this awful method of political assassination. There’s one Iranian institution, unfortunately, whose response to the revelation of Navalny’s frog poisoning was less likely to have been disgust and more likely “hold my beer”. That’s Imam Hossein University (IHU, or دانشگاه جامع امام حسین or دانشگاه امام حسین ), the research and training institution belonging to none other than Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps – the notorious IRGC. Murderers of protesters; imprisoners of unfortunate foreigners; torturers of dissidents; all round good guys and girls. We’ve written before about IHU’s research on nuclear physics and advanced chemical weapons , noting how IHU serves as an alternative centre of WMD-related expertise to that of ...