CHAPTER THIRTY TWO
9:30 p.m. (1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time)
The Research Institute of Energy Planning and Management
School of Science and Technology
University of Tehran
Tehran, Iran
The hallways were dark.
They had watched him through a hallway window as he gave a late evening class to a handful of students in a lecture hall that might hold two hundred. His students were not inside the building—they were out in the street, bloodied but unbowed. Twenty had been killed this morning, hundreds arrested.
Luke realized now that was probably the reason for the lax security at the prison—the security forces, the police, the Revolutionary Guards, the prison guards, anyone and everyone with a gun or a truncheon, had been mobilized to put down the student unrest. And still the students w
