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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Mariusz Kozik Illustrator. Howard Gerrard Illustrator. For 5 days in Maythousands watched around the world as the shadowy figures of the SAS performed a daring and dramatic raid on the Iranian Embassy in London, catapulting a little-known specialist unit into the full glare of the world's media. Hailed by Margaret Thatcher as "a brilliant operation, carried out with courage and confidence," the raid was a huge success f For 5 days in Maythousands watched around the world as the shadowy figures of the SAS performed a daring and dramatic raid on the Iranian Embassy in London, catapulting a little-known specialist unit into the full glare of the world's media. Hailed by Margaret Thatcher as "a brilliant operation, carried out with courage and confidence," the raid was a huge success for the SAS, who managed to rescue nineteen hostages with near-perfect military execution, although two hostages were killed by terrorists. Despite the acclaim and media attention, details of the siege are still largely unknown and those at the heart of the story, the identities of the SAS troopers themselves, remain a closely guarded secret. This book takes a concise and in-depth look at the dramatic events of the Iranian Embassy Siege, revealing the political background behind it and carefully analyzing the controversial decision by the Prime Minister and Home Secretary to sign over control of the streets of London to the military. Unique bird's eye view artwork illustrates the moment the walls were breached and show how the strict planning of the operation was critical to its success. With input from those involved in the mission, and discussion on the effective training regimes of the SAS, the author strips away some of the mystery behind the best counter-terrorism unit in the world Who Dares Wins - the SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 their most famous raid. Get A Copy. Paperback64 pages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 5. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Who Dares Winsplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Oct 27, Almantas Leika rated it it was amazing Shelves: nsdm. Osprey Publishing Raid publication. There are lots of topics to consider in more detail. Apr 13, Jonathan rated it really liked it Shelves: cold-war. Very interesting were the first hand accounts by SAS members and the hostages, as well as the dialogue by the terrorists. 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The gunmen, Iranian Arabs campaigning for sovereignty of Khuzestan Provincetook 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. Subsequently, police negotiators secured the release of five hostages in exchange for minor concessions, such as the broadcasting of the hostage-takers' demands on British television. By the sixth day of the siege the gunmen were increasingly frustrated at the lack of progress in meeting their demands. That evening, they killed a hostage and threw his body out of the embassy. The Special Air Service SASa special forces regiment of the British Army, initiated "Operation Nimrod" to rescue the remaining hostages, abseiling from the roof and forcing entry through the windows. During the minute raid they rescued all but one of the remaining hostages and killed five of the six hostage-takers. An inquest cleared the SAS of any wrongdoing. The sole remaining gunman served 27 years in British prisons. The Iran—Iraq War broke out later that year and the hostage crisis in Tehran continued until January Nonetheless, the operation brought the SAS to the public eye for the first time and bolstered the reputation of Thatcher's government. The SAS was quickly overwhelmed by the number of applications it received from people inspired by the operation and experienced greater demand for its expertise from foreign governments. The building, damaged by fire during the assault, was not reopened until The SAS raid, televised live on a bank holiday evening, became a defining moment in British history and proved a career break for several journalists; it became the subject of multiple documentaries and works of fiction, including several films and television series. The oil-rich area had become the source of much of Iran's wealth, having been developed by multi- national companies during the reign of the Shah. According to Oan Ali Mohammed, [note 1] suppression of the Arab sovereignty movement was the spark that led to his desire to attack the Iranian Embassy in London. The plan was inspired by the Iran hostage crisis in which supporters of the revolution held the staff of the American embassy in Tehran hostage. They claimed they had met by chance on the flight. The men typically returned to the flat drunk, late at night, and sometimes accompanied by prostitutes. Within a week, the housekeeper asked them to leave. They soon found another flat, where they told their new landlord they were moving because they had been joined by other men and required larger accommodation. Over the following days, the group swelled, with up to a dozen men in the flat on one occasion. On 30 April the men informed their landlord that they were going to Bristol for a week and then returning to Iraq, stated that they would no longer require the flat, and arranged for their belongings to be sent to Iraq. They left the building at BST on 30 April. Who Dares Wins - the SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 weapons, predominantly Soviet- made, are believed to have been smuggled into the United Kingdom in a diplomatic bag belonging to Iraq. Its original role was to penetrate enemy lines and strike at airfields and supply lines deep in enemy territory, first in North Africa and later around the Mediterranean and in occupied Europe. Stirling established the principle of using small teams, usually of just four men, to carry out raids, having realised that a four-man team could sometimes prove much more effective than a unit of Who Dares Wins - the SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 of soldiers. Western governments were prompted to form specialist anti-terrorist units following the Munich massacre —during the Olympic Games, a firefight between a group of hostage-takers and West German police left a police officer and all the hostages dead. The SAS had taken part in counter-insurgency operations abroad sinceand had trained the bodyguards of influential people whose deaths would be contrary Who Dares Wins - the SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 British interests. Thus, it was believed to be better prepared for the role than any unit in the police or elsewhere in the armed forces. The CRW Wing's first operational experience was the storming of Lufthansa Flight inwhen a small detachment of soldiers were sent to assist GSG 9the elite West German police unit set up after the events of Lock was later frisked, but the gunman conducting the search did not find Who Dares Wins - the SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 constable's weapon. He remained in possession of the revolver, and to keep it concealed he refused to remove his coat, which he told the gunmen was to "preserve his image" as a police officer. Although the majority of the people in the embassy were captured, three managed to escape; two by climbing out of a ground-floor window and the third by climbing across a first-floor second-floor in American dialect parapet to the Ethiopian Embassy next door. Afrouz and the 25 other hostages were all taken to a room on the second floor. The other hostages were all visitors, with the exception of Lock, the British police officer guarding the embassy. Afrouz had been appointed to the position less than a year before, his predecessor having been dismissed after the revolution. Abbas Fallahi, who had been a butler before the revolution, was appointed the doorman by Afrouz. One of the British members of staff was Who Dares Wins - the SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 Morris, from Batterseawho had worked for the embassy in various positions since During the course of the siege, police and journalists established the identities of several other hostages. Simeon "Sim" Harris and Chris Cramer, both employees of the BBC, were at the embassy attempting to obtain visas to visit Iran, hoping to cover the aftermath of the revolution, after several unsuccessful attempts. They found themselves sitting next to Moutaba Mehrnavard, who was there to consult Ahmad Dadgar, the embassy's medical adviser, and Ali Asghar Tabatabai, who was collecting a map for use in a presentation he had been asked to give at the end of a course he had been attending. Police arrived at the embassy almost immediately after the first reports of gunfire, and, within ten minutes, seven DPG officers were on the scene. The officers moved to surround the embassy, but retreated when a gunman appeared at a window and threatened to open fire. Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Dellow arrived nearly 30 minutes later and took command of the operation. Police negotiators made contact with Oan via a field telephone passed through one of the embassy windows, and were assisted by a negotiator and a psychiatrist. Large numbers of journalists were on the scene quickly and were moved into a holding area to the west of the front of the embassy, [24] while dozens of Iranian protesters also arrived near the embassy and remained there throughout the siege. COBRA is made up of ministers, civil servants and expert advisers, including representatives from the police and the armed forces. The Iranian government accused the British and American governments of sponsoring the attack as revenge for the ongoing siege of the US Embassy in Tehran. Given the lack of co-operation from Iran, Thatcher, kept apprised of the situation by Whitelaw, determined that British law would be applied to the embassy. Atthe gunmen released their first hostage, Frieda Mozaffarian. She had been unwell since the siege began, and Oan had asked for a doctor to be sent into the embassy to treat her, but the police refused. The other hostages deceived Oan into believing that Mozaffarian was pregnant, and Oan eventually released Mozaffarian after her condition deteriorated. At approximately on 1 May, one of the SAS teams moved into the building next door to the embassy, normally occupied by the Royal College of General Practitionerswhere they were briefed on Rose's "immediate action" plan, to be implemented should the SAS be required to storm the building before a more sophisticated plan could be formed. Early in the morning of 1 May, the gunmen ordered one of the hostages to telephone the BBC 's news desk. During the call, Oan took the receiver and spoke directly to the BBC journalist. He identified the group to which the gunmen belonged and stated that the non-Iranian hostages would not be harmed, but refused to allow the journalist to speak to any other hostages. He and three other non-Arab hostages had decided one of them must get out, and to do this, he had convincingly exaggerated the symptoms of an existing illness. The police negotiator refused the request, instead telling Harris to persuade Oan to release Cramer. The ensuing negotiations between Harris, Oan, and the police took up most of the morning, and Cramer was eventually released at He was rushed to hospital in an ambulance, accompanied by police officers sent to gather information from him. As the deadline of noon approached, set the previous day for the release of the Arab prisoners, the police became convinced that the gunmen did not have the capability to carry out their threat of blowing up the embassy, and persuaded Oan to agree to a new deadline of The police allowed the deadline to pass, to no immediate response from the gunmen. During the afternoon, Oan altered his demands, requesting that the British media broadcast Who Dares Wins - the SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 statement of the group's grievances and for ambassadors of three Arab countries to negotiate the group's safe passage out of the UK once the statement had been broadcast. At approximatelyOan became agitated by noises coming from the Ethiopian Embassy next door. The noise came from technicians who were drilling holes in the wall to implant listening devices, but PC Trevor Lock, when asked to identify the sound, attributed it to mice. The drilling was aborted after it agitated the gunmen, and instead British Airports Authorityowner of London Heathrow Airportwas told to instruct approaching aircraft to fly over the embassy at low altitude. The police refused and Oan pushed Ezzati, who he had been holding at gunpoint at the window, across the room, before demanding to speak to somebody from the BBC who knew Sim Harris. The police, relieved to have a demand to which they could easily agree, produced Tony Crabb, managing director of BBC Television News and Harris's boss. Oan shouted his demands; for safe passage out of the UK, to be negotiated by three ambassadors from Arab countries, to Crabb from the first-floor window, and instructed that they should be broadcast Who Dares Wins - the SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 with a statement of the hostage-takers' aims by the BBC. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office informally approached the embassies Who Dares Wins - the SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 Algeria, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria and Qatar to ask if their ambassadors would be willing to talk to the hostage-takers. The Jordanian ambassador immediately refused and the other five said they would consult their governments. Meanwhile, the police located the embassy caretaker and took him to their forward headquarters to brief the SAS and senior police officers. He informed them that the embassy's front door was reinforced by a steel security door, and that the windows on the ground floor and first floor were fitted with armoured glass, the result of recommendations made after the SAS had been asked to review security arrangements for the embassy several years earlier. Plans for entering the embassy by battering the front door and ground-floor windows were Who Dares Wins - the SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 scrapped and work began on other ideas. Oan, angered by the BBC's incorrect reporting of his demands the previous evening, contacted the police negotiators shortly after and accused the authorities of deceiving him. He demanded to speak with an Arab ambassador, but the negotiator on duty claimed that talks were still being arranged by the Foreign Office. Recognising the delaying tactic, Oan told the negotiator that the British hostages would be the last to be released because of the British authorities' deceit. He added that a hostage would be killed unless Tony Crabb was brought back to the embassy. Crabb did not arrive at the embassy untilnearly ten hours after Oan demanded his presence, to the frustration of both Oan and Sim Harris. Oan then relayed another statement to Crabb via Mustapha Karkouti, a journalist also being held hostage in the embassy. The police guaranteed that the statement would be broadcast on the BBC's next news bulletin, in exchange for the release of two hostages. The hostages decided amongst themselves that the two to be released would be Hiyech Kanji and Ali-Guil Ghanzafar; the former as she was pregnant and the latter for no other reason than his Who Dares Wins - the SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 snoring, which kept the other hostages awake at night and irritated the terrorists. Later in the evening, at approximatelyan SAS team reconnoitred the roof of the embassy. They discovered a skylight, and succeeded in unlocking it for potential use as an access point, should they later be required to storm the building. They also attached ropes to the chimneys to allow soldiers to abseil down the building and gain access through the windows if necessary. During the day, the Foreign Office held further talks with diplomats from Arabian countries in the hope of persuading them to go to the embassy and talk to the hostage-takers. The talks, hosted by Douglas Hurdended in Who Dares Wins - the SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980. The diplomats insisted they must be able to offer safe passage out of the UK for the gunmen, believing this to be the only way to guarantee a peaceful outcome, but the British government was adamant that safe passage would not be considered under any circumstances. John Dellow, the commander of the police operation, had apparently considered the idea and even consulted a doctor about its viability, but eventually dismissed it as "impracticable". Oan woke Lock at dawn, convinced that an intruder was in the embassy. Lock was sent to investigate, but no intruder was found. Later in the morning, Oan called Lock to examine a bulge in the wall separating the Iranian embassy from the Ethiopian embassy next door. The bulge had, in fact, been caused by the removal of Who Dares Wins - the SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 to allow an assault team to break through the wall and to implant listening devices, resulting in a weakening of the wall. Although Lock assured him that he did not believe the police were about to storm the building, Oan remained convinced that they were "up to something" and moved the male hostages from the room in which they had spent the last four days to another down the hall. AtLock informed the negotiator that the gunmen had taken Abbas Lavasani, the embassy's chief press officer, downstairs and were preparing to execute him. Lavasani, a strong supporter of the Iranian Revolutionhad repeatedly provoked his captors during the siege. According to Lock, Lavasani stated that "if they were going to kill a hostage, [Lavasani] wanted it to be him. After deliberations, Whitelaw instructed the SAS to prepare to assault the building at short notice, an order that was received by Lieutenant-Colonel Rose at Who Dares Wins - The SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege | Wargamer

The nation watched mesmerised as Rusty Firmin and Robin Horsfall, alongside their fearless Special Forces colleagues, set off explosives, burst through windows and shot dead hostage-holding terrorists in a hail of sub-machinegun bullets. Rusty Firmin — wearing no gloves — is seen with SAS colleagues during the fabled Iranian embassy assault, in a jaw-dropping display of British courage. Fame, if not fortune, followed. Firmin and Horsfall published memoirs recalling their heroics amid the clouds of CS gas, while celebrated actor Jamie Bell played Firmin in the feature film Six Days which retold the story of the famous siege. But now, just weeks before the 40th anniversary of that era-defining mission, a bitter dispute between Firmin and Horsfall has shocked the SAS community. It is usually considered sacrilege for soldiers to accuse each other of being a Walter Mitty — someone who exaggerates their role to the detriment of others. Yet Firmin has done just that. The only Robin that seen [sic] genuine Who Dares Wins - the SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 that day was the one nesting under the balcony of the embassy. Who dares shares! The acrimonious dispute also centres on the claim by both soldiers to have shot the same Arab terrorist during the siege. I fired two bursts into his centre of mass at point-blank range. He fell to the bottom of the stairs like a sack of potatoes and lay there as two more members of the team fired into him to make sure. It was Faisal and he held a grenade in his right hand. Without hesitation, I fired one short burst of three rounds at his chest. A soldier inches from him also opened fire. Faisal slumped to the floor like a bag of rags and died. The reserve team, including Horsfall, had not been sent in when I shot Faisal. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Argos AO. Share this article Share. Share or comment on this article: SAS comrades who took part in Iranian embassy siege engage in furious spat e-mail Comments Share what you think. View all. More top stories. Bing Site Web Enter search term: Search. Today's headlines Most Read 'It's a hit job! Britain records 26, more Covid cases and deaths as daily infections rise by a third in a week and Homeless migrants will be deported and criminals from EU countries will be banned under tough new Rishi Sunak will unveil new lockdown rescue deal today to help companies that are crippled by Tier Pope Francis endorses same-sex civil unions, saying: 'Homosexuals are children of God and have the right to Violent thugs who attacked father-of-three football fan could be Who Dares Wins - the SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 with killing him after victim whose Entrepreneur, 27, who forced himself on woman, 33, at Royal Festival Hall Christmas bash is told to expect City worker, 44, accused of murdering her four-week-old daughter was told by her mother to 'stop wallowing Ministers pause talks over cash aid as anti-Covid measures Even I don't know the rules: Police officer in charge of enforcing UK's coronavirus lockdown laws makes Borat review: Crass, vulgar Pollster who predicted election says Donald Trump is on track to win again with the help of 'hidden' Russian who was source of infamous golden showers claims about Donald Trump speaks for first time to say 'I Joe Biden is ahead in the six battleground states Donald Trump won in Who Dares Wins - the SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 as much as seven points, new There is no basis to this. Senior lawyer, 68, 'pulled white envelope over his head and told black secretary he had joined the Ku Klux De Montfort University launches 'urgent' full-scale racism probe 'after student Who Dares Wins - the SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980 on instant messaging All that drama is behind her': Abi Titmuss, 44, is Parents of mummy blogger, 29, who died with three of her children in horror smash say deaths of daughter and Jealous girlfriend, 38, who bit her boyfriend's testicles before stabbing the father-of-three to death in Bus driver becomes 45th Transport for London worker to die from Covid as union calls for better safety Student, 20, is found dead in his halls at Coventry University eight days after Cambridge academic's Housing BOOM Will Covid break the 'triple lock'? State pensions will rise 2. Covid vaccine could be ready before the end of winter but the virus will keep circulating 'for evermore', Back to top Home News U.