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The Tehran Initiative

Copyright © 2011 by Joel C. Rosenberg. All rights reserved.

Cover photograph copyright © Tibor Bognar/Photononstop/Photolibrary. All rights reserved.

Author photograph copyright © 2005 by Joel Rosenberg. All rights reserved.

Designed by Dean H. Renninger

Some Scripture quotations and words of Jesus are taken or adapted from the New American Standard Bible,® copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data to come]

Rosenberg, Joel C., date.

The Tehran initiative / Joel C. Rosenberg.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-4143-1935-3 (hc)

1. Intelligence officers—United States—Fiction. 2. Nuclear warfare—Prevention—Fiction.

3. International relations—Fiction. 4. Prophecy—Islam—Fiction. 5. Iran—Fiction. 6. Middle East—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3618.O832T44 2011

813'.6—dc23 2011026051

ISBN 978-1-4143-6492-6 (International Trade Paper Edition)