Met chief says rise in Iranian state threats ‘grave’ after arson attack

The head of the Metropolitan Police has said the force are investigating whether an Islamist group with possible Iranian state links is behind an arson attack on Jewish community ambulances.The incident in Golders Green, north-west London, in which four vehicles were destroyed in the early hours of Monday, is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime but not as terrorism, Scotland Yard has said.A video has allegedly been posted on Telegram by an Islamist group called Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, showing a map of the location where the ambulances were kept and footage of them on fire.