At 9:05 PM, on the road from Coleman, a city in southern Persia, to another city, Bam, three SUVs sped past like bolts of lightning.
Avanti was sitting in the backseat of the middle SUV, resting with his eyes closed.
A faint look of worry shrouded his face.
Just two hours earlier, a terrorist attack had taken place at Mango Airport on the outskirts of the southern city of Zahedan, where over a dozen members of the Revolutionary Brigade, driving three trucks, had smashed through the airport's perimeter fence, stormed the terminal, and opened fire on the police and staff present, killing and wounding over a dozen people.