CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
8:35 am Tehran Time (12:35 a.m. Eastern Standard Time)
Tehran, Iran
“No war! No nukes! No war! No nukes!”
The young woman raised her fist in the air as she shouted the words. All around her, on the campus of the University of Tehran, and spreading out into the surrounding streets, thousands of students chanted the same slogan.
She had come because enough was enough. She had come because this time, the students really were going to seize power.
The government leaders, the ayatollahs, the clerics, the secret police, the Republican Guards—they had gotten away with too much for far too long. They had squashed dissent in the name of policing public morality. They had imprisoned, tortured, raped, and murdered those who would dare question them.
Now they claimed they ha
