The Twelfth Imam

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Dr. Mohammed Saddaji-nuclear physicist, deputy director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran

Farah Saddaji-wife of Dr. Saddaji

Najjar Malik-physicist, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran

Sheyda Malik-wife of Najjar, daughter of Dr. Saddaji

Abdol Esfahani-deputy director of technical operations, Telecommunication Company of Iran (Iran Telecom)

Daryush Rashidi-president and CEO of Iran Telecom

Dr. Alireza Birjandi-preeminent scholar of Shia Islamic eschatology

Ali Faridzadeh-Iranian minister of defense

Mohsen Jazini-commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps

Tehran, Iran

November 4, 1979

Charlie Harper was still five or six hundred yards from the compound, but he was alone; even if he could fight his way through the rapidly growing mob, he still had no plan to rescue those trapped inside.

He could hear gunfire. He could taste the acrid stench of thick, black smoke rising into the crisp, early morning air. He could feel the searing heat of the bonfires as American flags and tires and someone’s overturned car were being torched all around him. He could see the rage in the eyes of the young men-thousands of them, maybe tens of thousands, bearded, shouting, screaming, out of control-surrounding the embassy and threatening to overrun its grounds. He just had no idea what to do.

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