The internet, telephones, radio and television, communications satellites, and fiber optic cables leading to and from critical installations including underground missile bases at Khorramabad and Isfahan will be taken out of action.
When two respected intellectuals, Abdolkarim Soroush and Mohsen Kadivar, arrived in Khorramabad, a remote western town, at the end of August to speak to a student convention, they were blocked from leaving the airport by a gang of Islamic vigilantes.