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May 5 marked the 41st anniversary of the end of the siege of Iran’s embassy in London. On that day in 1980, British Special Air Service’s (SAS) counterterrorism team members executed a lightning raid, killing all but one of six terrorists who had held embassy staff and visitors hostage for nearly six days. The assault, code-named Operation Nimrod, has become a textbook case of a successful hostage rescue operation. It also further enhanced the international prestige of the SAS, which already had an impressive reputation dating back to World War II.The embassy seizure has been the subject of books, documentaries and two feature films – Who Dares Wins" in 1982
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