There may be trouble ahead ...

  As Alfred Hitchcock once said, people tend to be most frightened not when something happens, but when they are waiting for it to happen.   So it was in the early autumn of 1979.   Everyone in Iran knew that, sooner or later, the Shah would fall, but apart from a few demonstrations, nothing was actually happening. And people did get scared!   The sound of a car back-firing was enough to set the heart racing. The sight of a few soldiers on the street served as a reminder that man is mortal and