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With Bated Breath
The only winning move is not to play.
—WOPR, the supercomputer in charge of NORAD, in the movie Wargames
Brilliant fire flashed through the heavens and thunder filled the sky. As the fireball came to Earth, passengers in cars traveling down the Babaei Highway east of Tehran could just make out, in the dawn light, three tall black cylinders above what turned out to be three separate smaller fireballs.
After it settled on the ground, an enormous metal staircase unfolded from the side and a lone figure in a full black burqa gracefully descended halfway down the stairs. If the woman within the burqa felt any of the anxiety appropriate to someone who had just violated Iranian airspace, the garment hid it perfectly.
Soon videos of the ship and the woman went viral acros
