‘He tried to blow up the Iranian embassy’

A dissident tried to set fire to a diplomatic car outside the Iranian embassy with a Molotov cocktail after calling for the ‘fascist’ regime to be overthrown, a court heard. Sam Parsa, 60, allegedly planted a bottle of petrol along with a scarf into the exhaust pipe of a BMW parked outside the offices in Knightsbridge on 5 September 2018. The Iranian national has claimed to be an ‘ex-political prisoner’ who sought asylum in the UK after fleeing the war…