Ben Macintyre's gripping account of the siege of the Iranian Embassy in London in the spring of 1980 and the daring rescue mission by the SAS: Operation Nimrod. Jamie Parker reads. Show more Ben ...
The Group of the Martyr, a dissident movement opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini’s new Islamic regime, planned to seize Iran’s ...
An SAS hero who took part in the Iranian embassy siege and helped in raids during the Falklands War has died aged 82. John Thompson, warrant officer, died on Saturday evening after a period of ill ...
He is my dearest friend.' The leader of an Iran-backed US embassy siege in Baghdad was welcomed to the White House by Barack Obama eight years ago before becoming Tehran's 'point man' in Iraq.