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London — <\/span>British police have arrested two teenagers in connection with a weekend arson attack on a synagogue in northwest London, as Jewish leaders expressed concern about a wave of incidents targeting their community.<\/p>\n Matt Jukes, deputy commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police Service, said on Monday that officers had overnight arrested two youths, aged 19 and 17, in connection with the attack on Harrow’s Kenton United Synagogue. The department has made 15 arrests related to six attacks on Jewish targets and one Persian language media organization<\/a> The Iranian government has been criticized over the past few weeks, he said in an interview with the BBC.<\/p>\n Jewkes said a “serious line of inquiry” is that Iran is hiring local criminals to carry out these attacks amid tensions in the Middle East, including the US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n “We’ve seen a pattern with other artists of hired swindlers, people taking cash that looks like quick and easy money,” Jukes said. \u201cThis is part of a modern hybrid war fought by proxy.\u201d <\/p>\n In the most recent incident, a bottle containing a flammable liquid was thrown from the window of the Harrow Synagogue on Saturday night, causing smoke damage, police said.<\/p>\n