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- 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 been guarding the embassy. They demanded the release of prisoners in Khuzestan and their own safe passage out of the United Kingdom.
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Aug 26, 2021 · SAS soldiers storm the Iranian embassy in London: May 1980. Two SAS teams launched a simultaneous assault. The red team abseiled down the back wall of the embassy. McAleese and the blue team...
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified in 2015 on the attack to the House Select Committee on Benghazi. She has also acknowledged that a “systemic breakdown” did take place. At the most recent hearing, Clinton’s was an emotional display at times. “I would imagine I have thought more about what happened than all of you put together,” sh...
Controversy revolves around efforts by the US security team to protect the ambassador. Multiple sources claimed that Stevens, security agent Scott Strickland and computer expert, Sean Smith were forced to a safe havenduring the assault, which began around 9.40pm. After a fire was started by the terrorists, however, the group lost track of one anoth...
What is known is that militants arrived in trucks bearing the logo of Ansar al-Sharia, a group of Islamists who were working with the local government to provide security. The assailants were armed with grenades, AK-47s, other assault weapons and canisters of diesel. The US eventually alleged that two Libyan branches of Ansar al-Sharia – Derna and ...
The US first claimed that the attacks were launched in response to the release of the controversial video Innocence of Muslims, an anti-Muslim film which sparked wider protests. The administration mistakenly claimed that it was such protests that led to the more violent compound attack, apparently to avoid framing the attack as an act of terrorism....
So the Benghazi attack did represent a serious lapse in security and intelligence, as well as a misunderstanding of the changing terrorist networks in the region. But it was far from a unique incident. Between 1998 and 2011 there were 13 deadly attacks on US diplomatic facilities, and seven US ambassadors have been killed while on the job since 195...
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May 23, 2023 · One of the last surviving SAS soldiers who stormed the Iranian embassy in London has died. Mel Parry was part of the SAS team that ended the 1980 siege six days after six armed men took 26 hostages inside the building.
Sep 12, 2024 · It was the killing by the terrorists of one of the hostages – an Iranian diplomat – that triggered the full SAS assault. Once it began, all the remaining hostages survived. Five of the ...
May 22, 2023 · One of the last surviving SAS soldiers who stormed the Iranian embassy in London has died. Mel Parry was part of the SAS team which ended the 1980 siege after six armed men took 26 people...
At 11.30am on 30 April 1980, six armed members of the Democratic Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Arabistan (DRFLA) stormed the Iranian Embassy on Princes Gate in South Kensington, London, taking 26 people hostage.
