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What really happened inside the Iranian Embassy siege of 1980

The Iranian Embassy Siege began on April 30, 1980, when six armed militants stormed the building in South Kensington and took ...
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'The Siege' takes an in-depth look at the 1980 takeover of London's Iranian embassy

At 19:30, on Wednesday, April 30, 1980, a small, secret, and exceptionally well-equipped army rolled out of Bradbury Lines, the Special Air Service camp at Hereford. Locals tended to be overly curious ...