Iran’s Wheat Fungus: Coincidence or Biological Warfare?

Kurt Nimmo
Truth News
March 30, 2008

Global Research reports:

A dangerous new fungus with the ability to destroy entire wheat fields has been detected in Iran, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today.

The wheat stem rust, whose spores are carried by wind across continents, was previously found in East Africa and Yemen and has moved to Iran, which said that laboratory tests have confirmed its presence in some localities in Broujerd and Hamedan in the country’s west.

Up to 80 per cent of all Asian and African wheat varieties are susceptible to the fungus, and major wheat-producing nations to Iran’s east – such as Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan – should be on high alert, FAO warned.

“The fungus is spreading rapidly and could seriously lower wheat production in countries at direct risk,” said Shivaji Pandey, Director of FAO’s Plant Production and Protection Division.

He urged the control of the rust’s spread to lower the risk to countries already impacted by high food prices.

Iran has said that it will bolster its research capacity to tackle the new fungus and develop wheat varieties that are rust-resistant.

Called Ug99, the disease first surfaced in Uganda and subsequently spread to Kenya and Ethiopia, with both countries experiencing serious crop yield losses due to a serious rust epidemic last year. Also in 2007, FAO confirmed that a more virulent strain was found in Yemen.

Sure, maybe it was carried by the wind — and maybe the fungus was introduced by man. Not so much a conspiracy theory when history is taken into account. For instance, back in 1977, the San Francisco Chronicle reported the CIA dispatched “anti-Castro terrorists” to introduce “African swine fever virus into Cuba in 1971…. Six weeks later an outbreak of the disease forced the slaughter of 500,000 pigs to prevent a nationwide animal epidemic.” It was so scary that the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization labeled the outbreak the “most alarming event” of 1971.

It wouldn’t be an isolated event. Earlier operatives introduced a disease infecting Cuban sea-turtles, coffee crops, and sugar. In fact, Cuba’s sugar crop was the economic target of choice. In 1977, cane smut mysteriously appeared in Pilón, eastern Cuba. The disease had never been known in Cuba. In 1978, sugar cane rust infected a new variety of cane imported from Barbados and as a result 1.35 million tons of sugar was lost.

Bovine skin disease, haemorrhagic dengue fever affecting 350,000 people, and the introduction of haemorraghic conjunctivitis, these are just a few of the plagues that have afflicted Cuba since the United States declared a covert war on the country.

During his trial in New York for the assassination of Cuba’s UN ambassador, Eduardo Arocena, leader of the Cuban-exile militant group OMEGA-7, testified that in the latter part of 1980 a ship traveled from Florida to Cuba with “a mission to carry some germs to introduce them in Cuba to be used against the Soviets and against the Cuban economy, to begin what was called chemical war.” (See William Blum, Killing Hope: U. S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.)

Is it possible the United States introduced the wheat fungus in Iran? Considering Iran is the numero uno neocon target and prominent neocons tell us Bush will attack the country before he leaves office, it is more than coincidental a debilitating crop disease has suddenly appeared. It also serves notice the attack will be his year, as it is easier to kill somebody when he is down.

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  1. JOHN STEEL on March 30th, 2008

    This is a prelude to the inevitable war of genocide against Iran. No doubt about how the fungus was spread, it is very simple to accomplish with the technology we have developed. U.S. agencies already have huge stocks of very scary and deadly bioweapons that will destroy selected species of plant or animal life while leaving others untouched. The human genome project conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy has lead to the ability to engineer gene weapons that kill or disable selected populations according to their maternal DNA type. Stocks of those evil bioweapons are stored and awaiting use in major metropolitan areas around the world.

  2. Scaramouche on March 30th, 2008

    Surely there is too much coincidence to be a natural outbreak at the same time Israel and the US, both known to have vast biological arsenals, are hyping for war against the very land where the outbreak has occurred

  3. Captain Chaos on March 30th, 2008

    i can’t believe the american people(who are dillusional) are actually scared of other countries. in reality, our government has used nuclear bombs(on japan), biological weapons(on cuba) and chemical weapons on it’s own citizens(waco).
    it’s just a matter of time b4 someone uses them on us.

  4. ProudPrimate on March 30th, 2008

    The United States is an airliner that has been hijacked and is headed at top speed toward a very large building, and the passengers have nothing to say about it. Why? They’re watching the movie.

  5. Jeanne on March 30th, 2008

    GODDAMN IT, QUIT FUCKING WITH THE FOOD SUPPLY! CAN WE GET SIR RICHARD BRANSON TO GIVE ALL THESE YAY-HOOS A ONE WAY RIDE TO PLUTO? DOOM & MORE GLOOM, THAT’S WHAT THE EVIL, INBRED, GREEDY, SHIT FOR BRAINS BASTARDS SPREAD.

  6. Captain Chaos on March 30th, 2008

    Proud Primate - that’s the funniest thing i have ever read…LOL

  7. TXGIRL on March 30th, 2008

    DESTROY THE FOOD, THEN INVADE. GREAT. NO WONDER THE WORLD HATES US.

  8. George on March 30th, 2008

    The Antichrist will use starvation as a main weapon to have all nations submit to his rule from Israel.

  9. lightbeamer on March 30th, 2008

    Here is another article where the CIA and all have known biologics and can use them to initiate another way to fight the war. I worked for a company years ago that took that Mad Cow bone that was to be CONDEMNED and burried was brought over to the United States, Shipped up the mississippi River On River Barge and then Up the Missouri River to Sioux Terminal and transported and put in a silo and fed into the production of Gelatin which went into making pharmacuetical Gelatin as well as food grade Gelatin. At the time we were producing the Gelatin for Pharmacuetical Type gelatin and sold to Capsulgel for Medications. Read a short Bio on a comment page i had posted well over a year ago. Go to this site and scroll down to comment part of page. http://www.madehow.com/Volume-5/Gelatin.html

  10. CVB on March 30th, 2008

    When the World has no food…….and starvation is everywhere - George Bush will have sperm in his mouth.

  11. nolocontendere on March 30th, 2008

    As soon as I heard about this fungus I grew suspicious of how it made it to Iran, bypassing countries to the west like Egypt with it’s vast wheat fields.
    http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/search?q=wheat fungus

  12. collin on March 30th, 2008

    Another war will bankrupt America. The war in Iraq is bankrupting America. Bush is absolutely crazy. If Iran is such a threat, let the mighty EU deal with it. They got the money to support a war of that scale. Take the word conspircy right out of all of this. If Bush goes to war, this is no conspiracy theory. The man is on a mission to destroy the USA. He is a traitor. There is no other way to look at it. Seal the borders. Bring the troops home and practise some diplomacy, NOW.

  13. Roon on March 30th, 2008

    Just another excuse for the United Nations to go to war with Iran.

    Yeah, it’s the United Nations war not America’s.

  14. ericperson on March 30th, 2008

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=jm43mJNMVek
    U.S/U.S.S.R Biological Weapons Programs

    And at the end, a death of one of the interviewed people! Exciting! You’ll just love it if you haven’t seen it already. Personally I can never look at eggs the same way again.

  15. Infinite Unknown » Blog Archive » Iran’s Wheat Fungus: Coincidence or Biological Warfare? on March 31st, 2008

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  16. Disorder on March 31st, 2008

    This is a WAR against us all, not just Iran… HIV, SARS to kill people, BSE/mad cow desease/chicken flu and this to kill off the food supplies. Their plans are going ahead as scheduled..
    Stock as many tins and storable foods as you can, this will be a bumpy ride.

  17. Eva on March 31st, 2008

    WHY IS HE STILL IN POWER?????

    >>

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  19. Al Koppel. on March 31st, 2008

    This is an old story! Remember the Irish so-called potato famine so we could have White slaves in this United States worked to death as there was always plenty more where that came from? And God knows that the Irish lived well enough before they ever got potatoes from this New World! -Al Koppel.

  20. indijo on March 31st, 2008

    This is the kind of story that leads me to believe in sci-fi conspiracy theories about alien body-snatchers.

    When are we gonna realize that non-human is an attitude which should be treated as the enemy, and that too many of our tyrannical leaders are acting non-human these days.

    Could it be an alien “division to conquer” the human race? Hell, I don’t give a frigate if they’re aliens or not, they sure as hell are acting like it!

    Know they enemy and it’s all those with the power to destroy us who use it with arrogance and impunity!

    BUSH AND HIS CORPORATE VAMPIRES AND VULTURES ARE THE ENEMY!

  21. Deborah on March 31st, 2008

    Is this a taste of our own future too? Will we “go lightly into the night” to our deaths through starvation and disease? Unfortunately, the complete control of food and water sources will be the ultimate lever to control the “masses”. I wonder if Iran is to become an experiment combining multiple warfare techniques towards the final goal(s) of the Bilderberg group.

    Sigh, whenever I get discouraged or angry over how the majority of the American people are either asleep or completely brainwashed by the government and their elite handlers, I come here for some intelligent analysis of the issues in this upside-down world. Whenever I get discouraged about my attempts to spread info on what is going on “behind the curtain” but are met with accusations of being a “conspiracy nut”, drunk, writing from jail or some other such nonsense in their attempt to shame me into silence, I come here to read comments that are actually true and make sense.

    Thank you for your info, for your ability to intelligently “connect the dots”, and for your honesty … all of you! There is some sanity to be found in the world after all!

  22. Disorder on April 1st, 2008

    barrack obama is a 32nd degree freemason, dont vote for him or hilary, they are tools.. Ron Paul FTW

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    I still think “Digger the Dermatophyte” wins for most disgusting commercial. I turn off the TV when that one comes on. Just the thought of* lifting up a toenail* makes me shudder.

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