Fire near the headquarters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran in London

British authorities announced that fire brigades in London put out a fire near the headquarters of the opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, and indicated that there is no evidence so far that the fire was arsonist.

London police said in a statement that they had “received a call from London fire units following reports of a fire that broke out in Temple Road” (northwest London) on the night of Sunday-Monday.

According to firefighters who rushed to the scene at 2:15 (local and international time) on Monday morning, the fire “destroyed a room dedicated to the garbage container on the ground floor” of the building that houses the headquarters of the Iranian opposition organization.

Stressing that there were no casualties, the spokeswoman added: “The fire was brought under control at 2:35 a.m.”

Authorities have opened an investigation into the cause of the fire.

The police statement quoted Tony Bellis, who is in charge of the northwest London police area, as saying that investigators “do not rule out the possibility that there were motives for this incident. At the moment there is no information to indicate a targeted attack, and (the incident) is not considered terrorist. “But given where the fire broke out and the organisation stationed in the adjacent building, members of the London Police Counter-Terrorism Command are involved in the investigation.”

In a statement, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), to which the organization belongs, accused the Iranian regime of being behind the fire.

“Agents and terrorists affiliated with the mullahs’ regime used Molotov cocktails and bombs to attack one of the headquarters” of the organization in London, the council said in its statement.

The Iranian opposition organization asserted that its accusation was based on the testimony of a neighbor who “saw one of the attackers (…) Flee.

The incident comes shortly after Britain’s domestic intelligence service MI5 recently announced that it had foiled more than 12 plots by the Iranian regime to kill people based in the UK considered “enemies of the regime.”

Iran International, a Persian-language channel opposed to the Islamic Republic based in London, is also under enhanced police protection after receiving threats over its coverage of demonstrations in Iran.