Iranian Embassy siege

April 30 – May 5, 1980 · South Kensington

Result Embassy recaptured after six-day siege

Armed men from an Iranian Arab group took 26 hostages in the Iranian Embassy in London. After six days the British SAS stormed the building, rescued most hostages and killed five of the six gunmen.

United Kingdom

Democratic Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Arabistan

Other

Strength and losses

Wounded
2