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6 Days is a 2017 action thriller film directed by Toa Fraser and written by Glenn Standring. [5] A British-New Zealand production, it is based on the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London and stars Jamie Bell, Abbie Cornish, Mark Strong and Martin Shaw.
Euan Lloyd gained the idea for the film from events surrounding the Iranian Embassy siege in London, most notably the storming of the building on 5 May 1980 by the SAS. Living just half a mile from the embassy, he visited it on multiple occasions during the four days it was occupied by terrorists, witnessing the dramatic ending to the siege in ...
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 ...
6 Days (2017) – British-New Zealand action thriller film based on the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London [2] The 8-Year Engagement (Japanese: 8年越しの花嫁 奇跡の実話 ) (2017) – Japanese romantic drama film based on an autobiographical book by Hisashi Nishozawa and Mai Nakahara [ 3 ]
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.
1980 Dominican Republic Embassy siege in Bogotá: February 28 El Salvador Panama: Panama City: 0 0 A group of 17 Panamanian student militants briefly took over the Salvadoran embassy to demand the release of imprisoned comrades. [39] April 1 Peru Cuba: Havana: 1 2 Peruvian Havana Embassy Crisis of 1980: April 30 – May 5 Iran United Kingdom ...
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
A "Revolutionary Committee" was in control of the Libyan embassy in London, located at 5 St James's Square; the embassy was renamed the "People's Bureau". [ a ] In 1980 Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi —the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council —saw many exiles from Libya as traitors and had given orders for several of them to be ...