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Chief Superintendent Max Vernon, 84, was part of a six man team tasked to try and secure the release of 26 hostages. The hostages had been taken after the Iranian Embassy was stormed by a gang of six gunmen in April 1980. The Arab terrorists demanded autonomy for Iran-held Khuzestan, as well as the release of 91 prisoners.
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It seems that a relentlessly pessimistic view of the past five years has settled among much of the left in the UK after the failure of the Corbyn project. Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci writing from his prison cell in 1929 famously coined the phrase “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will”. Gramsci enjoined us to be realistic, to fear the worst but hope for the best.
The Metropolitan Police s head negotiator who helped the SAS save the lives of 19 hostages during the Iranian Embassy siege of 1980 has died.
Chief Superintendent Max Vernon, 84, was part of a six-man team charged with negotiating with six armed terrorists who besieged the diplomatic building in South Kensington, West London and took 26 people hostage.
The gunmen, all Arab separatists demanding autonomy for Iran-held Khuzestan following a regime crackdown in 1979, demanded the release of 91 prisoners and their own safety in return for handing over the hostages.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher refused to guarantee the terrorists safe passage out of Britain - and between April 30 and May 5, 1980, the world watched and waited as Mr Vernon began his life-saving negotiations.
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