He then raised his hands to cover his face momentarily, as a deep and concerned sigh billowed from between his fingers. Almost as quickly, he then withdrew his hands abruptly from his face revealing his eyes to be enlarged and red, exuding the frustration and the exhaustive condition of his mind and body.

And just as quickly, these words fell from his lips, “Gentlemen, let’s get to work, it’s going to be a long night, and you might as well fire up the coffee pots. We’re going to need coffee and lots of it, too!”

Then one of his two aides accompanying him turned on the TV to Sox News, as the other turned on their computers, to access the information they instinctively knew that would be required for the President to accurately make the necessary decisions on this dreadful and somber night.

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Meanwhile back in Tehran the normally bustling city that was usually awake already at this time of the morning with its citizens busy planning out their day’s activities while having their morning coffee, seemed to be eerily deserted this particular morning

However, it wasn’t quiet as sirens blared in the streets throughout the capital city. The populace, evidently being extremely fearful of what the U.S.’s retaliation might be for Iran’s testing a nuclear bomb, had seemingly headed for the many bomb shelters, that had been built throughout the city since the time the U.S. invaded Iraq many years earlier, when the then President, George Bush, called Iran one of the three “axis’s of Evil”, along with Iraq and North Korea.