In 1980, six gunmen stormed the Iranian Embassy in London, taking 26 hostages. What followed was a tense, six-day standoff that would end in a dramatic SAS rescue. ‘He was the people’s pontiff ...

Ben Macintyre captivates readers with true stories. He expertly unravels complex historical events, explaining sharp subplots ...

Forty-seven years ago, in April 1978, the leader of the UK opposition Conservative Party, Margaret Thatcher, visited Iran ...

The bewildered young men in the Iranian embassy were scarcely of the same calibre ... but the odds were hardly the same: the British siege took place in the heart of London, so to call this conclusive ...

On the morning of Wednesday, April 30, 1980, he was assigned as the sole police officer guarding the Iranian Embassy building in London ... infamous Iranian Embassy Siege. Nothing could have ...

On 30 April, 1980, a group of six armed men stormed the Iranian embassy in London and took 26 people hostage there, triggering a six-day siege which was decisively ended when the SAS acted.

"He also knew himself as Thomas Palmer after one of the SAS soldiers who achieved fame when he was involved in the Iranian Embassy siege ... Wood Lane, London, between May and September 1976 ...

Mohammad Hashir Faruqi, Editor of the erstwhile Muslim news magazine Impact International, passed away on January 11, at his home in London.

Iran dreamed up a U.S.-style Marshall Plan to rebuild Syria after the civil war. It invested billions to build influence ...

London’s police force have charged a man with a terror offense after he was detained trying to enter the grounds of the Israeli Embassy while in possession of what appears to have been a knife ...

After an explosion in Iran, the Chinese Embassy in Iran and the Consulate General in Bandar Abbas promptly communicated with local Iranian authorities to verify the situation, including checking ...