IRANIAN EMBASSY SIEGE, SAS STORM TO VICTORY 💥🔥🇬🇧 On this day, 5 May 1980, a proud moment in modern British history: Operation Nimrod, when the SAS rescued 19 hostages live on national television and ended the Iranian Embassy Siege. On the 30 April, a group of six armed men, opposed to the Iranian government of the time, stormed its embassy in Princes Gate, South Kensington, and took 26 people hostage including embassy staff, several visitors and PC Trevor Lock, a police officer who had been on guard. They were members of an Arab group campaigning for national sovereignty in the southern region of Khūzestān Province and demanded the release of prisoners from jails, and their own safe passage out the UK. The British government resolved that safe passage would not be granted, and a siege ensued. During the siege, 5 hostages were released, and by the sixth day of the siege, 5 May, the gunmen had become frustrated at the lack of progress in meeting their demands. That evening, they killed one of the hostages Abbas Lavasani, the Embassy's Chief Press Officer, and threw his body out of the embassy. As a result, the British government ordered in the Special Air Service. At 19.24, the SAS abseiled from the roof and broke in through the windows. The firefight lasted 17 minutes and was broadcast live at peak time on a bank holiday Monday evening! To this day, those who saw it haven't forgotten it! 5 of the 6 terrorists were killed, with the loss of one hostage, Ali Akbar Samadzadeh, an Embassy employee, who was shot by the terrorists during the raid. PC Trevor Lock was considered a hero and was awarded the George Medal, the United Kingdom's second-highest civil honour, for his conduct during the siege and for tackling a terrorist during the SAS raid. The lesson was loud and clear, "Don't Mess with Britain's SAS!" An action film was produced in 2017 called "6 Days". It was based on the book "Go! Go! Go!" by one of the soldiers, Staff Sergeant Rusty Firmin (pictured below without gloves). --- Please help us recall to memory our British History and tell the British Story daily, via our> crowdfunder.co.uk/spring2026