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When IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands died, the Iranian government renamed Winston Churchill Boulevard, the location of the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Tehran, to Bobby Sands Street, prompting the embassy to move its entrance to avoid using Bobby Sands Street on its letterhead.

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After the death of several Northern Irish republicans in a prison hunger strike, the Iranian government renamed the street where the British Embassy in Tehran is located from Winston Churchill Boulevard to Bobby Sands Street, after one of the strikers.

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1. After Bobby Sands died while on hunger strike, Iran changed the name of Winston Churchill Boulevard, the home of the British embassy in Tehran, to Bobby Sands Street as a sign of respect. The British embassy moved their door to a different road to avoid using Bobby Sands Street as their address.

2. The street of the British Embassy in Tehran (Iran) was renamed from Winston Churchill Boulevard to Bobby Sands street (Bobby Sands was an IRA member who died on hunger strike in a British prison).

3. When Bobby Sands died after the hunger strike the Iranian gov. named the street that the British embassy was on "Bobby Sands Rd" So the British Embassy had to move the front door of to the other side of the building so the address wouldn't be British Embassy, Bobby Sands Rd, Tehran, Iran.

4. Operation Credible Sport...a 2nd mission to rescue American hostages in Iran by a rocket propelled C-130 Hercules landing in a soccer stadium across the street from the embassy in Tehran. The op was cancelled when the Iranian parliament accepted a plan to release the hostages.

5. A CIA agent teamed up with a comic book artist (Jack Kirby, co creator of X-men) and a make up artist (John Chambers, who had an Academy Award for "Planet of the Apes") to save some American hostages from US embassy in Tehran in a ridiculous, but effective way.

6. On Nov 4, 1979 in Tehran, Iran student unions loyal to Ayatollah Khomeini, originally planned a 'symbolic occupation' of the US embassy began a standoff known as the Iran Hostage Crisis holding fifty-two American diplomats and citizens hostage for 444 days.

7. Although the US does not have diplomatic relations with Iran, there is a Virtual Embassy of Tehran