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image captionSam Parsa was handed a hospital order without limit of time
A man who planted an incendiary device in a diplomatic car outside the Iranian embassy has been detained indefinitely.
Iranian dissident Sam Parsa, 60, pushed a bottle of flammable liquid into the vehicle's exhaust pipe near Hyde Park in central London on 5 September 2018.
The Old Bailey heard it was only "pure chance" that it had not gone off.
On Thursday, He was made subject to a hospital order without limit of time, having been found guilty of attempted arson with intent to endanger life.
At his trial last December, the jury heard Parsa, from Tottenham, had planned for the car to be set on fire when the engine was started.