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arson attacks in London against an Iranian dissident and Jewish targets amid fears the Iranian state may be behind them. The latest attack came on Wednesday evening at about 8.30pm against the offices
arson attacks in [London](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/london) were planned for weeks with suspects carrying out reconnaissance on the Jewish targets to be firebombed. The series of attacks against synagogues and other Jewish targets, as well
involved in an "altercation" in another area of London hours before the Golders Green attack, the force said. In 2020 he was referred to the government's Prevent program, which tries to steer individuals away
involvement of hostile states was coming together in the UK to create a terrifying atmosphere for British Jews. Asked if the threat to their community was greater than it had ever been before, he said
arson attack on a synagogue in Rotterdam in the Netherlands on 13 March, in which four people were arrested; another came after an explosion outside a Jewish school in Amsterdam, a day later. No injuries
involving hostile states carrying out operations such as spying and sabotage in the UK has increased by half in six months, [the head of counter-terrorism policing](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/24/king-charles-patron-community-security-trust-jewish-charity) has said. The move, first
arson attack on a synagogue in Skopje, north Macedonia, in April, as well as the stabbing of two Jewish men – including a dual US-British citizen – in [London](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/london), England. The attacks prompted
states scrambling. Once, a hostile secret service had to send a skilled and experienced operative to commit assassination, sabotage or terrorism thousands of miles away, or activate networks of sleeper agents, or find and train
involved Iran. The MI5 director general, Ken McCallum, [said in October](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/16/mi5-chief-frustrated-at-failure-to-put-men-accused-of-spying-for-china-on-trial) that the service had tracked more than 20 potentially lethal Iran-backed plots in the UK in 12 months
involving nearly 60 countries. 3. ***UK news*** | Winston Marshall, a former member of the band Mumford & Sons and the son of the GB News co-owner Paul Marshall, has said [Britain should construct](https://www.theguardian.com