At least 10,000 Iranians protested outside the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Monday on the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the building. The crowd was at least ten times bigger than previous ...

On a spring day in 1980, six armed men stormed the Iranian Embassy in London - holding 26 people hostage. What followed was one of the most daring rescue missions in modern history: Operation Nimrod.

The Iranian Embassy Siege began on April 30, 1980, when six armed militants stormed the building in South Kensington and took 26 hostages. Their demands centered on autonomy for Iran’s Khuzestan ...