{"id":396928,"date":"2026-04-17T11:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/396928\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:53:15","slug":"three-charged-over-attempted-arson-on-persian-language-tv-channel-uk-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/396928\/","title":{"rendered":"Three charged over attempted arson on Persian-language TV channel, UK police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            17\/04\/2026 &#8211; 11:50 GMT+2\n            <\/p>\n<p>UK police said on Friday they had charged two young men and a teenage boy, following an attempted arson attack on the offices of the Persian-language news outlet Iran International.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>London&#8217;s Metropolitan Police said Oisin McGuinness, 21, and Nathan Dunn, 19, both of Watford, northwest of London, and a 16-year-old boy from north London were all charged with arson with intent to endanger life.<\/p>\n<p>McGuinness was also charged with dangerous driving.<\/p>\n<p>All three are British nationals and are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court on Friday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The force had announced their arrests on Thursday following the incident the previous evening in northwest London, when &#8220;an ignited container&#8221; was thrown into the premises housing Iran International.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The container landed in a carpark, where the fire immediately put itself out and there were no reported injuries,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.met.police.uk\/news\/three-people-charged-in-connection-with-arson-attack-in-north-west-london-508353\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">Met said in its statement on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were arrested after an armed police vehicle in the area pursued an SUV which had fled the scene and later crashed in north London, it added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following liaison with and authorisation from the Crown Prosecution Service, they were subsequently charged,&#8221; the force noted, referring to the prosecution service in England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Iran International on Thursday condemned the attack, which it called part of a &#8220;sustained effort to intimidate Iran International and silence independent Persian-language journalism beyond Iran&#8217;s borders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iran International is one of several Persian\u2011language outlets critical of Iran&#8217;s clerical leadership operating from abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Housed in a heavily-secured building in west London, the newsroom employs about 200 journalists, with correspondents in Washington, Paris, Berlin and Tel Aviv and was labelled a &#8220;terrorist organisation&#8221; by Tehran in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Additional sources \u2022 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 17\/04\/2026 &#8211; 11:50 GMT+2 UK police said on Friday they had charged two young men and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13840,23131,42,87,43,102,104522,40,38,41,39,1299],"class_list":{"0":"post-396928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-arson","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-police","14":"tag-press-freedom","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-topstories","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}