{"id":108316,"date":"2026-08-21T17:39:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/108316\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:39:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:39:34","slug":"three-admit-arson-attack-on-iran-international-offices-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/108316\/","title":{"rendered":"Three admit arson attack on Iran International offices in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two men and a teenage boy have admitted taking part in an arson attack on the UK office of a Persian media company.<\/a><\/p>\n

On 15 April, the offices of Volant Media, the parent company of Persian<\/a> news channel Iran International, were allegedly targeted.<\/p>\n

Police had been alerted after an \u201cignited container\u201d was thrown towards the site in Wembley<\/a>, north-west London<\/a>, landing in a car park where the fire immediately went out.<\/p>\n

There were no injuries and the suspects left the area in a black four-wheel-drive vehicle, police had said.<\/p>\n

Nathan Dunn, 19, pleaded guilty to a charge of arson<\/a> being \u201creckless as to whether life is endangered\u201d on 15 April.<\/p>\n

During an Old Bailey hearing on Friday, a 17-year-old boy denied that charge but admitted the lesser alternative offence of arson.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice had been alerted after an \u2018ignited container\u2019 was thrown towards the site in Wembley, north-west London, landing in a car park where the fire immediately went out (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

The prosecution indicated his plea was not accepted and he faces a trial on February 1 next year.<\/p>\n

Previously, the driver of the car, Oisin McGuinness, 21, had pleaded guilty to arson, which was accepted by the Crown.<\/p>\n

He has also pleaded guilty to dangerous driving in north-west London on the same date and possession of the class A drug cocaine.<\/p>\n

McGuinness and Dunn, both from Watford, Hertfordshire, have been remanded into custody.<\/p>\n

The youth, who cannot be identified, is remanded into local authority care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[3354,61,6355,8982,27,33,462],"class_list":["post-108316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-arson","tag-crime","tag-horizontal","tag-judaism","tag-london","tag-police","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117134725657759692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}