On May 5, 1980, Britain’s SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy in London in a blistering 17-minute assault that stunned the world. Operation Nimrod wasn’t just a hostage rescue - it was a political gamble, ...

The 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran may have ended after 444 days, but both America and Iran still remain captive to a crisis that began 40 years ago. While those held hostage at the embassy ...

Kevin Hermening was held hostage in Iran for 444 days as part of the U.S. embassy takeover in 1979.He tells “Banfield” watching the scenes from Monday’s Israeli hostage release “does bring back some ...

After six days of tension, the British SAS launched a daring daylight assault on London’s Iranian Embassy. What followed was over in minutes—but changed hostage rescue forever. 'Elaborate' illegal ...

Barry Rosen knows what it means to wait for freedom. He spent 444 days as a hostage, one of 52 Americans held prisoner at the U.S. embassy in Iran from 1979 to 1981. He described when he was reunited ...

Although most people know the story of how the Iranian hostage crisis helped bring down President Jimmy Carter, the truth is that Iran has been a challenge for American diplomats for decades. In 1924, ...

Women sit on a low wall beneath a large banner outside the former U.S. embassy compound as crowds gather to mark the anniversary in Tehran, Iran, on Nov. 4, 2025. The compound, seized during the 1979 ...

Hostage negotiations of those previously detained in Iran before the brutal Oct. 7, 2023, Iranian regime-backed Hamas attacks on Israel over the last two years have taken a back seat to those working ...

While the whole world watched, 52 Americans were held hostage in Iran by Islamic revolutionaries for 444 days. On the fifth anniversary of their release, using never-before-seen footage from inside ...

Just as Iran and the United States seem to be emerging from a diplomatic freeze that started with the 1979 hostage crisis at the American embassy in Tehran, Iran has appointed a new ambassador with ...