Embassies get seized all the time"
Really! " ALL THE TIME"! How about some links supporting this? Our embassy in Iran is the only one I can recall, ever.
I guess you may have a poor memory. ;-)
Here's just a small sampling.....and don't get me started on violent acts of aggression committed against embassies......it would take many hours to complete the list:
"Foreign Minister Pangalos lashed out at Ocalan's Kurdish supporters for seizing Greek embassies across Europe, saying the taking of diplomats hostage was, in his words, barbaric. Kurdish protestors took five hostages at the Greek mission in Vienna, including the ambassador and his wife.Protestors also took the wife and eight-year-old son of the Greek ambassador
hostage in the ambassador's residence in The Hague."
b-info.com
"JRA members have committed a series of atrocious crimes around the world, such as seizing foreign embassies and highjacking aircraft. Among these incidents in particular, the Government of Japan was forced to release the JRA members imprisoned or detained on the occasion of the "Kuala Lumpur Incident" in August 1975, an incident in which the US Embassy and other facilities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia were occupied by their members, as well as the "Dacca Incident" in September 1977 in which a Japan Airlines aircraft leaving Paris for Tokyo was highjacked."
siliconinvestor.com
BANGKOK, Dec. 28, 1972 Four armed Palestinian "Black September" terrorists seize Israeli embassy and six hostages, demand release of 36 commandos held in Israeli prisons. After negotiations with Thai government officials lasting 19 hours, they surrender hostages and fly to Egypt.
KHARTOUM, March 1, 1973 During a reception for arriving and departing U.S. envoys, Black September terrorists take over Saudi Arabian embassy, kill both U.S. diplomats and a Belgian chargé d'affaires. They surrender to Sudanese authorities after three days, free three other hostages.
PARIS, Sept. 5, 1973 Five Arab terrorists break into the Saudi embassy and seize 13 hostages, demanding release of a Fatah leader imprisoned in Jordan. They release some hostages but take four others with them to Kuwait, where the terrorists surrender hostages and themselves two days later.
KUWAIT, Feb. 7, 1974 Palestinians take over Japanese embassy, hold ambassador and ten others hostage. Their goal: release of besieged Japanese Red Army and Palestinian commandos who had been holding hostages for a week on a Singapore ferryboat. The hostages are finally freed, and the guerrillas fly to Aden.
THE HAGUE, Sept 13, 1974 Three Japanese Red Army terrorists force release of a fourth colleague, held in a French prison, by seizing French embassy and eleven hostages. The four terrorists demand—and get—a ransom of $1 million, fly to Damascus on a French plane and surrender to P.L.O.
STOCKHOLM, April 24, 1975 Terrorists seize West German embassy to demand release of 26 Baader-Meinhof gang members being held in German prisons. They set off explosion in building. Two diplomats and one terrorist die in firefight with police before terrorists surrender; ten other hostages are released.
MADRID, Sept. 15, 1975 Four armed Palestinian terrorists break into Egyptian embassy, take three hostages and threaten to blow up the building unless Cairo renounces the Sinai pact with Israel. Flown to Algiers with five hostages, terrorists surrender to the P.L.O. All the hostages are freed.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 4, 1975 Demanding independence for the South Moluccan Archipelago, gunmen seize the Indonesian consulate, taking 30 hostages, including 16 children. Negotiations obtain release of some children. Terrorists surrender after 16-day siege, during which one prisoner dies, three are injured while escaping.
VIENNA, Dec. 21, 1975 Three are killed and seven wounded when six pro-Palestinian terrorists seize 81 persons attending an OPEC conference. Among them are several oil ministers. The terrorists fly to Algiers, then Tripoli, releasing some hostages, finally surrender in Algiers two days later.
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time.com
Hostage taking, whether by kidnapping individuals, hijacking airlines or storming buildings, has always been a popular tactic due to its demonstrated effectiveness. Although Jenkins argued in 1987 that the seizing of embassies would decrease because of an increase in their security measures, the left-wing Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement seized the Japanese embassy in Peru in 1997.32 Hostage situations are on the increase among desperate groups in many Third World countries. In fact, there was a 33% rise in the kidnapping of foreigners in the 1990s.33
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