During the spring of 1980, six gunmen took over the Iranian Embassy in London and held dozens of hostages. Police first tried to handle the situation peacefully. Negotiations soon reached a stalemate.
Operation Nimrod was a high-risk SAS mission carried out in 1980 to end the Iranian Embassy siege in London. Armed gunmen had taken hostages, triggering a tense six-day standoff that captured global ...
On May 5, 1980, the world watched as Britain's elite SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy in London. In just 17 minutes, they executed one of the most daring hostage rescue operations in modern history, ...
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