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 ...

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.

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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.

An Iranian student who stripped to her underwear in Tehran in protest at alleged harassment over her clothing was transferred to a centre of "specialised care", Iran's embassy to Paris said on ...

An Iranian student who stripped to her underwear in Tehran to protest alleged harassment over her clothing has been transferred to a center of "specialized care", the Iranian Embassy in Paris said ...

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 ...