British investigators believe that Iran has direct ties to the arson attack in Golders Green, in which four Hatzola ambulances were set on fire, the Guardian reported.

The report clarified that although the media coverage focused on the Ashab al-Yamin group, which claimed responsibility for the attack and others, investigators say that the current “working assumption” was that “the group doesn’t exist and it is a front and a brand invented by Iranian intelligence or the Quds Force.”

Senior analyst Joe Truzman and editor of the FDD’s Long War Journal wrote: “Groups like Ashab al-Yamin, which I suspect is a front organization crafted by Iran, are designed as much for perception as for action. By pairing relatively low-cost attacks such as arson and small-scale bombings with rapid, coordinated media amplification, they turn limited operational impact into outsized psychological effect.”

“Claims of responsibility, propaganda videos, and messaging across social platforms create the impression of extensive reach, coordination, and persistence.

“In the case of Ashab al-Yamin, I think that so far, the objective is not mass casualties but visibility: to ensure that each incident reverberates beyond the immediate target and signals to Jewish communities in Europe and beyond that they are being watched and deliberately targeted by an obscure entity with links to Iran.”

Speaking at an event on Monday evening, Mark Rowley, the head of the Metropolitan police, said: “The rapid growth in recent years of Iranian state threats is grave: hostile state surveillance activity, 20 disrupted plots and recent attempted attacks on the Iranian diaspora. None of this is isolated. It is part of a rapidly shifting threat landscape.”

UK police made two arrests in connection with the attack on Wednesday morning.

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)