Experts see potential hallmarks of Iranian involvement in firebombing of four ambulances in Golders Green on Monday

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o some it was the moment the mask slipped. Wearing an open-necked white shirt, Mohsen Rafighdoost, former minister of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was filmed last March fondly reminiscing with an interviewer from the Tehran-based Dibdan Iran news website about the assassinations he had organised around Europe.

There was Prince Shahriar Shafiq, the last Shah of Iran’s 34-year-old nephew, who was shot twice in the head outside his mother’s home in Paris in 1979.

Then there was the Shah’s final commander-in-chief, Gen Gholam Ali Oveisi, also shot dead in Paris in 1984.