Iran is a tightly restricted, closed society-a situation that Jack Abramian, a superrich Californian with Armenian roots and business interests, desperately wants to change. From his huge industrial base in southern Armenia he conceives Operation Snowdrop, in which a handful of daredevil pilots drop 10 million ready-to-use mobile phones that float down on little parachutes on Iranian cities. Programmed with messages of freedom, they are an immediate...