LONDON — British police said on Friday they had charged a 39-year-old man on suspicion of assisting Iran’s intelligence service, the latest in a series of incidents involving Tehran and offenses covered under the UK’s National Security laws.

Police said the suspect, Vahid Aberi, from Liverpool, in northern England, was taken to a police station in central England, and that searches had been carried out at addresses in nearby Birmingham and Liverpool.

UK security officials have repeatedly warned that Iran has sought to use criminal proxies to carry out hostile activity in the country. Since the beginning of the US-Israeli war with Iran in late February, there have been a number of antisemitic attacks in Britain linked to Iran.

Seeking to use new powers designed to stop the use of state-sponsored proxies, earlier this week the government said it was banning the Iran-backed Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right, or IMCR, also known as Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia.

The group sprang up online earlier this year and said online that it was responsible for a string of arson attacks on Jewish sites in London in recent months, including fires at synagogues and the torching of Jewish charity ambulances, as well as a Persian-language media organization critical of........

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