An Iran-linked group has backed Palestine Action’s violent protest campaign against Israeli targets despite the group’s proscription as a terrorist organisation.

The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) has been described as an “Islamist group ideologically aligned with the Iranian regime” that has a history of “extremist links and terrorist sympathies” in a Government review of the counter-terror Prevent programme.

In social media posts and at events over the past 10 months, the IHRC in north London has campaigned in support of 10 Palestine Action activists charged with criminal damage, violent disorder and aggravated burglary after a protest at a factory belonging to Israeli arms company Elbit Systems in Bristol last August.

The so-called “Filton 10” were initially arrested under the Terrorism Act, which meant they could be held for 14 days without charge.

None were charged with terrorism offences but the Crown Prosecution Service said there was a “terrorism connection”.