In the six-day siege that followed, however, it wasn’t the well-dressed terrorists who made their name. Instead, it was the ...

In the second part of Ben Macintyre's exhilarating account, yesterday's Mail on Sunday recounted how the SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy during the 1980 siege. The third and final part of this ...

"For those of us of a certain age (62, since you ask), the extraordinary events of 5 May 1980 will remain indelibly etched on ...

Standing in the elegant entrance hall of the overrun Iranian embassy ... it would work. SAS preparations had been underway ever since the gunmen's assault on the embassy had begun.

Sgt Norman Merrill and his SAS team advanced into the Iranian ... balcony throwing a smoke grenade in the window at the Iranian Embassy siege." ...

A NEW book about the Iranian Embassy ... Wisely, the SAS hog-tied everyone face down on the grass outside before they set about the task of differentiating embassy staff from the terrorists ...

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SAS soldiers storm the Iranian embassy in London ... window as the elite SAS team forced their way in to end the six-day siege. After leaving the Army he briefly worked as a pub landlord and ...

On April 30, 1980, six Arab gunmen, claiming to fight for the political rights of ethnic Arabs in Persian-majority Iran, shot their way into the Iranian Embassy ... in “The Siege,” a book ...

Ben Macintyre's gripping account of the siege of the Iranian Embassy in London in the spring of 1980 and the daring rescue ...

A Scots author’s blow-by-blow account of the Iranian embassy siege in London has been nominated as one of 2024’s best books.

That day, the SAS stormed the Iranian embassy in London – ending a six-day siege that had begun when six gunmen entered the embassy, taking 26 hostages, four of them Britons. Now, the nation ...