The Group of the Martyr, a dissident movement opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini’s new Islamic regime, planned to seize Iran’s ... of Britain’s SAS, whose storming of the embassy remains the ...

A POLICE officer hero of the bloody 1980 Iranian Embassy siege has died at the age of 85. PC Trevor Lock was guarding the building in London’s South Kensington when terrorists took him and 25 ...

Mr Lock was guarding the Iranian embassy in South Kensington when he and 25 others were taken hostage after terrorists burst into the building on April 30, 1980. It led to a six-day stand-off that was ...

PC Trevor Lock, 85, died on Sunday and was one of 26 hostages who were held by terrorists in 1980 inside the Iranian Embassy in London as part of a terrifying six-day seige ...

A six-day stand-off ended live on TV when the SAS stormed the embassy, killing five of the six hostage-takers. PC Lock, who had strapped a hidden handgun to his body, spoke to police negotiators ...

During the negotiations, the gunmen demanded the release of 91 political prisoners held in Iran as well as an ... the government ordered the SAS to raid the embassy after the gunmen shot dead ...

Image: Members of the SAS storm the embassy. Pic:Sipa/Shutterstock The ... the terrorists demanded autonomy for a southern region of Iran, the release of 91 prisoners, and safe passage out of ...