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 ...

It was just before 1pm on Monday, May 5, 1980 – Day Six of the Iranian Embassy siege in central London ... Peter de la Billière, Director SAS, whose recruits were experts in surveillance ...

An SAS hero who took part in the Iranian embassy siege and helped in raids during the Falklands War has died aged 82. John ...

A NEW book about the Iranian Embassy siege of 1980 makes ­compelling reading ... PM ­Margaret Thatcher finally gave orders for the SAS to go in. General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith said the SAS ...

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

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 ...

9/10 On day 6 of the siege at the Iranian Embassy the criteria is met for deploying the SAS.

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 ...

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An Army widow killed herself on Remembrance Day while mourning her SAS hero husband and soldier ... wife of John McAleese who led the Iranian Embassy siege rescue in 1980 and died in 2011.

Ben Macintyre's gripping account of the siege of the Iranian Embassy in London in the spring of 1980 and the daring rescue mission by the SAS: Operation Nimrod. Jamie Parker reads. Show more Ben ...