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The Iranian Embassy siege took place from 30 April to 5 May 1980, after a group of six armed men stormed the Iranian embassy on Prince's Gate in South Kensington, London. The gunmen, Iranian Arabs campaigning for sovereignty of Khuzestan Province , took 26 people hostage, including embassy staff, several visitors, and a police officer who had ...
John McAleese – first man on the balcony during the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980 caught on live news. Team member for the BBC Television series SAS Survival Secrets; Peter McAleese – former mercenary and author; Andy McNab DCM MM – author; Des Peter Middleton, A Squadron,1st SAS; Danny Nightingale; Peter Oldfield – cricketer
In 1975 he transferred into the Special Air Service. He was a lance corporal in 1980, serving in Pagoda Troop, 'B' Squadron, 22 SAS Regiment, when he led "Blue Team" in the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London during a hostage siege on 5 May 1980. [citation needed] McAleese fought in the Falklands War in 1982, and in The Troubles.
Fowzi Badavi Nejad (Arabic: فوزي بدوي نجاد; Persian: فوزی بداوی نژاد) is an Iranian Arab, the only survivor of a six-person group of the Democratic Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Arabistan (DRFLA) that seized the Iranian Embassy for six days in London in 1980.
On Day 1, 30 April 1980, six Iranian Arabs storm the Iranian Embassy located at 16 Princes Gate, Kensington in London and hold at least 26 hostages. Notable persons have been summoned by the incident, including SAS members led by Lance Corporal Rusty Firmin, BBC reporter Kate Adie, and Chief Inspector Max Vernon of the Metropolitan Police.
Frank Collins (5 November 1956 – 16 June 1998) was a Church of England clergyman and the first 22 SAS soldier to enter the building in the Iranian Embassy Siege in 1980. Whilst with 22 SAS B Squadron (Air) Troop, Collins served with both Al Slater and Charles "Nish" Bruce. He left the service in 1989 after 15 years to work in security and ...
The Iranian embassy in the aftermath of the siege. By 1980 Vernon was a chief inspector with the Metropolitan Police fraud squad. [1] Because he had attended the negotiation course, Vernon was summoned to the scene of the Iranian Embassy siege on its first day, 30 April.
He was promoted lieutenant colonel on 30 June 1978, [12] and was commanding officer of 22 SAS from 1979 to 1982, as part of which he was in control of the operation to free the hostages of the Iranian Embassy Siege in 1980; he was portrayed by Robert Portal in the 2017 film about the siege, 6 Days. [13]