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NewsColony Go on lads, get in there! How the SAS launched the embassy raid that stunned the world Forty years ago this month, on April 30, 1980, the Iranian Embassy on Prince’s Gate in London was stormed by six terrorists bent on gaining autonomy for a region in southern Iran they call Arabistan.  What unfolded was a siege of high drama that transfixed the world, as JONATHAN MAYO revealed in the Mail on Saturday.  In the concluding part of this gripping series, it is five days into the siege, four hostages have been released but 22 remain.  Next door to the embassy, the SAS wait for the order to launch Operation Nimrod, a daredevil mission to rescue the hostages.  The SAS have been in position for four days and are rehearsing their hostage-release tactics at the full-size mock-up of the embassy that has been built at their temporary base in Regent’s Park Barracks. The SAS are pictured storming the embassy Day 5: Sunday, May 4, 1980 4am PC Trevor Lock...