Tributes paid after SAS hero who stormed the Iranian Embassy in 1980 dies after ‘very long illness’
“When I joined the Regiment there were so many senior soldiers to look up and learn from. However Mel was streets ahead in his thinking of SAS training and tactics in just about all forms.
“It was he who would set the bar high to move the Regiment forward and look at what the young guns can do today.On April 30, 1980, six gunmen campaigning for Arab separatism in Iran’s Khuzestan Province stormed the embassy in South Kensington, taking hostages. They executed Ali Akbar Samadzadeh in cold blood and six days later, on the orders of Margaret Thatcher, 35 SAS troops stormed the embassy.
The operation was broadcast live on TV. The 17-minute operation resulted in five of the six gunmen being killed.
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