UK says an Iran-backed group was behind attacks on Jewish community, bans Revolutionary Guard

Britain Antisemitism - (Suzanne Plunkett/Pool Reuters via AP)

A series of arson and vandalism attacks on Jewish sites in Britain were the work of a proxy group backed by Iran, the U.K. government said Monday.

The government said it is banning the Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right, or IMCR, also known as Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia.