Rusty Firmin: The 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege & 'The Man With No Gloves' - Danger Close w/ Jack Carr

Today’s guest is legendary SAS operator Rusty Firmin.
Rusty Firmin served in the British Army for 27 years, most of them at the highest levels of special operations.
Famously known as “the man with no gloves,” Rusty served as the SAS Blue Team lead during the 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege in London that resulted in the rescue of 19 hostages.
Rusty recounts his experiences in the SAS in his books, Go! Go! Go! The SAS. The Iranian Embassy Siege. The True Story. and The Regiment: 15 Years in the SAS. Go! Go! Go! was the inspiration behind the major motion picture, 6 Days, starring Jamie Bell, Mark Strong, and Abbie Cornish.
Following his time in the SAS, Rusty transferred his skills to the private security industry consulting for diamond mines in West Africa, global news organizations, corporations, actors, Olympic teams, and foreign dignitaries.
You can learn more about Rusty at rusty-firmin.com and by following him on Twitter @RustyFirmin
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[@Dr.PaulInnerd]

Imagine Jon Mac doing the podcasts. He’d probably be the British Jocko social media wise. Huge respect to Jack for stating the SAS are the seed (under the premiership of Winston Churchill) for all western special forces. 👊🏼

[@timhannah4]

Big up to John Mac 🤘

[@locngo]

Rusty is a legend and I never tire of hearing his experiences

[@chestnutsev7]

I got rusty’s The Regiment.15 years in the SAS. Great book .

[@johnregan326]

Brilliant interview with a legend Rusty firmin Jack keep the videos coming SAS WHO DARES WINS 🇬🇧.

[@marklee1194]

Hi Jack. You should consider interviewing Robin Horsfall, 22 SAS veteran who served in Northern Ireland, the Falklands and most notably, the 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege. He was also a Karate instructor and is now an author.

[@lewisb85]

He's my sensei's senior sensi met him a few times what a legend.

[@ChampChamp2024]

Jack is one of the best podcasts on KZbin he’s a proper chilled guy and seems very genuine someone if you was serving in the special ops you’d want him. Either on your right or your left.

[@maxcullen3427]

British SAS bet very hard for him not to be Chilled 1 of the complete legends in our history nothing panics him

[@ChampChamp2024]

@@maxcullen3427 he was chilled though Jack seems genuine what you see is what you get with him I like his podcasts there is another one called combat stories

[@maxcullen3427]

@@ChampChamp2024 yes I’m just saying to raise blood pressure of ordinary SAS well first time public even heard about SAS would be pretty hard stress never been in his wheelhouse I’d think

[@maxcullen3427]

LETTING THE fox in henhouse or something like that what government said afterwards before such a black op unit

[@rhymetimeuk]

What a great interview, Rusty is a legend and I never tire of hearing his experiences. Thanks, Jack and Rusty!

[@YARROWS9]

Great listen. Thanks for your service, both. Colin McClaghan would be good Jack. He has rescued hostages(operation barras) and been a hostage himself in Iraq. Plus he went to university after leaving the SAS, and attained a first class honours degree.

[@Sarky39]

Amazing story .. glad Rusty wrote the book so younger generations can learn about important historical events.

[@waynemakepeace5034]

What’s his booked titled??

[@SeedsofJoy]

He went over and trained with Delta for a a bit in the late 70s/early 80s, would have been interesting to hear his perspective on the early days at Delta, I think he met Charlie Beckwith and Bucky Burruss

[@nickjohnson710]

Rusty needs to do a 6 hour interview on the shawn Ryan show! And he's very outspoken ,he wasn't pulling any punches in this interview ,about certain things 🇬🇧

[@nickjohnson710]

@@noodlefringe1802 not beckwith, he did selection with bucky burruss,he said in the interview

[@nickjohnson710]

@@noodlefringe1802 there's no need to apologise 👍

[@zeramoke]

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[@anthonygudgeon4298]

He went over and helped run the first selection for Delta and laid out the blueprint for there selections with other SAS much like other UKSF did with the seals in 1966

[@toddglover2054]

I'm a huge fan of Jack Carr, his books, Amazon series, and social media outlets. Keep on knocking ot out of the ball park. (one critique, stop asking the same question three times.)

[@ClassicRiki]

I’ve met Rusty, he’s an absolute legend. I’ve got infinite respect for him 🇬🇧

[@williamcarrington61]

Very best wishes to you Rusty. I had 2 attempts to join, g

[@danielwithington3106]

Good to see you on the podcast Rusty!

[@dpdog1]

Another great guess... had to order the book Go....

[@mikegleed5842]

18:00mins 😂 The Mickey-Mouse torch with wire and Battery on the MP5 cracked me up😂👌. Jack does a Cool podcast 😎🤝

[@samuelhumphrey5908]

11 minutes to have cleared 56 rooms on 3 floors. Amazing

[@alisonfirmin8790]

There were 59 others who took part, two are veteran survivors of the battle of Mirbat, Sekonia Takavesi and Pete Winner who went on after the seige to do the Falklands so those two have actually been been in a lot of conflicts, under heavy fire and fought for they're lives.

[@samuelhumphrey5908]

@@alisonfirmin8790 thankyou for the extra. Appreciated

[@suzyqualcast6269]

No fkn about.

[@shaundavenport621]

Alison have you ever thought about putting pen to paper.You grew up around these guys I believe, so you must have some excellent life away from their work stories??I'm also fully aware that Rusty,s recollection of events are Rusty,s truth if you know what I mean.Ive cross referenced so many different video,s and books that I think I've a pretty good idea of what happened and what didn't happen that day,!!All the best.

[@marqshir]

Ive watched the film 6 days and listened/watched a documentary on the real siege/rescue.when the negotiators were saying to the lead terrorist about a coach to Heathrow the sas were on their way down the wires

[@shawngrenier3107]

JackCarrUSA…have you seen the 1982 movie “The Final Option”. Great film. Has some loose similarities to this story. Well worth the effort to find it. Sometimes the movie is also called “Who Dares Wins”.

[@dukecraig2402]

Yes, it was called Who Dares Wins in England and The Final Option when they released it in America. I caught it on cable television back in 82 or 83, great movie. And I remember the 1980 Iranian Embassy Hostage thing when it happened, I'll never forget watching that guy jump over to another balcony just as that explosive went off, talk about your heart going up in your throat, that was something.

[@DavidNolan-fi8gi]

❤ rusty, warrior with manners thank you for service ❤🙏

[@thejudge-kv2jk]

Great stuff! 🇬🇧

[@kevinadamson5768]

Always good to listen to Rusty. Some good stories.

[@SkuseyBoy]

i tried to connect this guy and jocko like a year or so ago and he replied to my comment tagging both agreeing to a podcast. it was pretty cool haha

[@ChampChamp2024]

They’ve removed him off Instagram now for talking about the proxy war

[@jopattix]

@@ChampChamp2024 shame

[@KD__.]

Great guest thanks 👍🏻

[@danielmarshall4587]

Gentlemen thank you for this video.

[@tonybreward8678]

Saw him last year on the m5 eating at Gloucester service stop,

[@MyScotty7]

Absoulte legend!

[@samuelhumphrey5908]

Wow! Just found this! Feel late already!!!

[@rhythmsaint73]

Rusty is as good an operator and human as you can get . What he and 22 did at princes gate has inspired other units in entry and tackling terrorist holding up in buildings. The man with no gloves is no nonsense and zero tolerance which i respect

[@furryrug5998]

Looks sounds fairly unassuming guy but no doubt a badass

[@patrickshipley1033]

6 days is a movie about his book. Well acted. Simplified of course. But we’ll done

[@brandenloncar4571]

What a cool dude!

[@carforumwanker]

In 1959 a team (they had not established real formal names then) left Merebrook Camp and rescued a "member of society " in London. Shots where fired and 2 people died. This was when the SAS did not write books or do TV shows and bring out daft "SF" branded clothing !! The press never got wind of the event .It might have been the first "SAS" hostage rescue mission on UK soil ever ? There has to be some still alive who "might know a lot more" . The name of the person they "Liberated " has never been mentioned .Only the fact it was central London

[@christasmith6004]

where did you here about this so called mission?

[@carforumwanker]

@@christasmith6004 It was told to me 50 years ago by a SAS officer.

[@christasmith6004]

damn, oh okay how intriguing do you remember anything else aside from what you already mentioned about this particular covert mission?@@carforumwanker

[@tonykeast9966]

Legend.

[@stevegallacher88]

A proper Englishman. Old school legend.

[@discodan1592]

Awesome

[@Airtrooper719]

Great interview, subbed

[@shaundavenport621]

If I'd have been part of the SAS team and had forgotten my gloves i wouldn't have been able to operate as I'd have been far to worried about splinters!!Bloody dangerous in there you know!😅

[@suzyqualcast6269]

RIP Guvna.

[@YOURMOMCALLSME]

Jack, you have yet to let me down, sir. Great content as always 👏

[@kevinworrall231]

Legend

[@smellyfinger684]

Uurgh. I love Rusty but his admiration of Thatcher will never sit right with me.

[@bwdavis4573]

🎧 Dear Lord the poor guy is nearly deaf! Lots of bang-bang sure takes its toll on warrior ears🎧⚔️

[@MyScotty7]

Bad connection I think plus MP5 deafness 😂

[@tonywilkinson6895]

Maybe he’s talking about the Nordstream. If so he’s right.

[@phillysphinest3946]

Jack is such a pawn… just look when they speak about “ww2 veterans “ in the English dudes class.. careful what you say jack , don’t wanna ruffle feathers

[@MikeHunt-rw4gf]

algorithm

[@pyeitme508]

9ok

[@daveboon5992]

Sour grapes 🤮🤮

[@MichaelKng-fk5jk]

Funny how naive you really are Jack. At the time the SAS were unknown. There wasn't the US like recruitment drive as they again disappeared, with no one knowing anything. Years later rumours were there of the Falklands and Northern Ireland. You can't compare UK military directly with the US, certainly not historically with the SAS or SBS.

[@alisonfirmin8790]

Still a blue team leader walter mitty? There wasn't one. Myself and the other 59 who took part in the seige know that. Legendary , not in Hereford you're not!

[@karenbevan7761]

Not the "Mr Nice Guy" he makes out to be 😏

[@MrDeclan1982]

He always comes across as self important, can imagine he wouldn’t have been liked just due to his personality,

[@renatolaranja52]

Enlighten me 🤔

[@alisonfirmin8790]

@@MrDeclan1982 he is full of self importance, making out he is a celebrity after he and 59 others took part in an 11 minute seige. Was never Blue Team Leader, any one of the guys will tell you that.

[@alisonfirmin8790]

@@shaundavenport621 i am definitely Alison Firmin, that's my surname the same as my sons, why would i change it? And what ancient history would i be pissed at?

[@ciaranmcginn2234]

Hey you didn’t ask him if he was one of the SAS who was sent by the UK to train Pol Pots Khmer Rouge on torture and land mine laying, why didn’t you ask him about that?

[@nickjohnson710]

Are you American?

[@nickjohnson710]

If you are then, you will know that the UK and the US have been involved in every war since WW2 in some way or another.......Don't be navie

[@MyScotty7]

Shut up!

[@ciaranmcginn2234]

@@nickjohnson710 there is a huge difference between being involved in a war and training terrorists, which is what the SAS did in Cambodia with the Khmer Rouge. The genocide and atrocities that Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge did were widely know and reported on by then and the SAS still went to train them in guerrilla and non conventional tactics, this is after the Khmer Rouge were defeated by the Vietnamese and were forced to the jungle to fight an insurgent war leading all the way up to UN backed and monitored "free" elections in the early 1990's. It would be like sending Americas to Germany in 1940 to instruct the Germans on how to build and run concentration camps and then never talking about it or questioning it and what effect it had and why they did what they did. No naivety here, I've been to Cambodia many times myself and seen the skulls, you never quite forget the feeling of finding and holding rope bindings and bones in the dirt that have been laying there untouched for 40 years, with the knowledge that the last time they were exposed to air was when they were tied around someones wrists as they waited to be killed. Also I've had first hand experience of the results of SAS operations in the North of Ireland and that was not a positive experience at all. The fact that this was done covertly by a highly secretive military unit is fact that the UK government were concerned about the optics and morality of it and didn't want anyone to know about it. When you are on the wrong side of history no one wants to seem to talk about it. Jack Carr has had a few chances to ask SAS operators who were active in this period about this but never has, if you are going to interview someone you should cover the highs, like the Iranian Hostage siege and also press them about things they seem a bit reluctant to talk about not just fan boy out about them. Bob Woodward said "Democracy Dies in Darkness" and I would add that theory applies to truth, accountability and history as well.

[@nickjohnson710]

​@@ciaranmcginn2234 But the bush family had business interests in auschwitz, as did many other Americans, why do you think it wasn't bombed? These type of things have always happened through history, it's nothing new...

[@snug1117]

SAS ARE THE ELITE OF THE ELITE THIS IS FACT

[@jamiecollins6832]

It's true. They don't care once u leave .

[@hoii962]

🇫🇯🇬🇧

[@natcain]

Legend.