{"id":534357,"date":"2026-04-16T16:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534357\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:03:11","slug":"arrests-over-persian-media-offices-arson-attempt-in-wembley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534357\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests over Persian media offices arson attempt in Wembley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ignited container landed in the car park of Volant Media, the parent company of Persian news channel Iran International, where the fire quickly went out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The SUV was then seen leaving the scene and was later pursued by police before it crashed on Ballards Lane, where arrests were made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two men and the boy remain in police custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of nearby buildings were evacuated as a precaution, but were quickly reopened after police confirmed there was no wider risk to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the incident is not being treated as terrorism, detectives from Counter Terrorism Policing London are leading the investigation, supported by local officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Metropolitan Police said the attack is not currently believed to be linked to Wednesday&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cew77rwrevdo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> attempted arson at a synagogue in Finchley<\/a>, or to last month&#8217;s arson attack on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/czj1m8xpk14t\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four ambulances belonging to the Jewish community charity Hatzola in Golders Green.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ignited container landed in the car park of Volant Media, the parent company of Persian news channel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-534357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}