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GRP 83-Operation Nimrod: The Story of the Iranian Embassy Siege by SAS Staff Sergeant Rusty Firmin

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   GRP 83- We have the distinct honor and privilege of having on 22 SAS Staff Sergeant Rusty Firmin. Rusty was the blue team leader during the Iranian embassy siege in London, May 1980. The footage captured by the British media show SAS assaulters storming the embassy in which they rescued 19 hostages and killed 5 of the 6 terrorists. The major motion picture "6 Days" is a film about the embassy siege that is based on Rusty's book " Go! Go! Go!: The SAS. The Iranian Embassy Siege. The True Story".

Below is an excerpt:

 John Hendricks: This incident was really the first time the world caught a glimpse of what counter-terrorism and hostage rescue is really about. It shocked the world.

 Rusty Firmin: That's right. The incident lasted for six days until the resolution was put in on the 5th of May and the mission, of course, was to rescue the hostages. That's exactly what the red and blue teams of B Squadron did all of those years ago.  That was never supposed to be shown on TV. Part of the plan was when the assault did go in it was supposed to be smoked off so nobody could see. What happened is the prime minister (Margret Thatcher) said "We're not going to do that. We're going to show the world how we deal with terrorist" and that's exactly what happened. There was nobody more surprised than me when I finished the operation a few hours later to see it being run on TV when Mrs. Margret Thatcher sat with us in Regence Park Barracks and we were all going "what happened there?"  (Laughs).

 I became blue team commander by day 5. The guy I took over from Roy, went to make the distraction charge which is the one you heard that initiated the assault. Once they killed Mr. Lavasani everything changed. Unless they threw their hands up and ran out this was it. It took 16 minutes for us to get into our final assault positions covertly. The idea was to hit everything simultaneously. It was 56 rooms on 6 levels. We had 34 guys ready to go. As soon as we got the go, big loud explosion and we went in. The guy who shot Lavasani came down passed me I saw his hand grenade so I spun him around and shot him.

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6 Days

Icon Films just released the teaser trailer for 6 Days, a film dramatisation of the 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege. In the summer of 1980 the world’s media watched a tense six day stand off between the British government and police and the Iranian Separatists who took 26 hostages inside the Iranian Embassy in London. 

The trailer begins with contemporary news footage talking about the Summer Bank Holiday weekend, during which the SAS launched their now famous raid. The trailer cuts between scenes of the Khūzestān separatists bursting into the embassy and the negotiator Max Vernon, played by Mark Strong. These clips are interspersed with a graphic of the embassy’s floor plan and details of the siege. 

Stills from 6 Days showing SAS members with MP5s and MP5SDs.

Jamie Bell plays Rusty Firmin, leader of one of the two Special Air Service assault teams which ended the siege. The trailer shows members of the SAS teams moving into position to enter the embassy - preparing to abseil, breech a door and blow in a window. The window breeching became the iconic moment of the raid as it was captured and broadcast live by the world’s media. The film follows the perspectives of Strong’s negotiator character, Bell’s SAS team leader and Abbie Cornish as journalist Kate Adie. 

The weapons and kit seen in the trailer appear to be period accurate with the SAS armed with MP5s and MP5SDs while the terrorists appear to have Czech Sa vz. 23 submachine guns. The raid which ended the Iranian Embassy Siege came to define the SAS, the scenes of black-clad special forces dramatically bursting into the east London Embassy cemented their reputation as an elite counter terrorism force and made them a household name. 

6 Days isn’t the first film to depict the siege, the 1982 film Who Dares Wins (released in the US as The Final Option) used the siege as inspiration for its climactic finale. 

6 Days’ screenplay was written by Glenn Standring, presumably based on Rusty Firmin’s 2010 book Go! Go! Go!: The Definitive Inside Story of the Iranian Embassy Siege, and directed by award winning director Toa Fraser. 6 Days look promising and is due in theatres in August, 2017.

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An evening with Rusty Firmin & Phil Campion Tickets being reserved now and this will be one for all ages.. Two era’s of Special Air Force (SAS) in the same room telling you about their experiences before, during and after their time in black kit Full story: https://www.cumbriacrack.com/2019/01/15/an-evening-with-rusty-firmin-phil-campion/