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5 live's Peter Allen looks back to April 1980 when the world watched as gunmen held 26 people hostage at the Iranian embassy in London. The gunmen belonged to a dissident Iranian group opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini, the religious leader who had come to power. They wanted the release of 91 political prisoners held in Iran as well as an aircraft to take them and the hostages out of the UK. After a six-day stand-off, the SAS launched a dramatic attack on the hostage-takers. Five Iranian gunmen were killed and one was arrested. Nineteen hostages were set free but one died and two were injured in the cross-fire. Peter speaks to a hostage, an SAS rescuer and a journalist who covered the story.