Chapter Fifty-Three
Iranian investigators combing through the destruction and ruins located in the area of the blast found a lot of evidence concerning what had happened, but none about the cause other than a massive electrical and hydraulic malfunction that proved to be catastrophic.
“The cavern and security office were obviously penetrated,” said one of those looking into the matter, “but by whom and how many hasn’t been determined.”
“How was the area breeched?” asked the man in charge. “We studied the possibility of this problem from the time the project was started, and I was assured the area was completely secured by electronic devices and other means that would preclude this from happening.”
“We found eight torpedo-shaped devices we think were used to pass through the pipeline wh
