Sting of the Scorpion by Lawrence Hebb

Author:Lawrence Hebb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Military Action, Adventure, Spies
Publisher: Lawrence Hebb
Published: 2023-07-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Twenty-two thousand miles above the site, something was watching. Catching every little detail and relaying the information back down to the earth some seven to ten thousand miles away, across continents and oceans, where the information was about to cause absolute panic.

For years, the West has had a major distrust of Iran and all things Iranian. Ever since the regime came to power in the late 1970s, there seemed to be no middle ground on which both Iran and the west could agree. It didn’t help that the biggest power in the west was literally caught with its ‘pants down’ when the revolution happened. They not only backed the wrong players but were caught ‘red handed’ spying on the new regime, something that caused a major standoff that lasted over a year and caused major embarrassment to all concerned.

Langley went ballistic! Major explosions in Iran so close to a major pipeline, and then talk on the intercepted calls of ‘terrorism’ and ‘terrorists’ threw them for a loop. In Langley’s language, the two words Iran and terrorism were almost never on opposite sides of the ledger! They were virtually synonymous with each other.

Phone lines were going crazy as more and more analysts were calling in to ask, “What the hell?” Or basically, “How the hell did someone do this without us knowing about it? And who the hell is responsible?” No one was looking forward to telling the President!

Tel Aviv was even worse. Things like this have a tendency to get blamed on ‘The son of Shaytan’, as the Iranians loved to call Israel. So they’d be expecting at least to know what they’re going to get blamed for. Having an irate Prime Minister on the phone wanting to know what the hell they were being accused of was not a pleasant experience. Dealing with President Obama when he wasn’t happy was bad enough. Benjamin Netanyahu was positively dangerous, he’d thrown things and not just in general but at you, and they tended to hit their target!

Downing Street called an immediate meeting of ‘C.O.B.R.A’. The emergency response team of the security services, everyone was scared this could escalate into something bigger. The Iranians and Israelis both have nuclear arsenals and even the slightest hint that Israel was involved could set the ‘hounds of hell’ loose and the way the Iranians were mobilizing it seemed that’s what was happening!

One thing that was on everyone’s mind, but no one wanted to say it was could Isis be behind the attack? Isis are Sunni Muslims but the Iranians are Shiite, a divide that’s filled with fourteen centuries of hatred and bloodshed! Could they be resurrecting the centuries-old blood feud in some crazy way?

There was one place that was watching the events unfold, yet was a sea of relative peace. That was Sir Michael’s office, not MI6 (that was in uproar), but his inner sanctum. His door was closed and jamming devices blocked any signal trying to intercept what was going on in the office.

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