The Greek charge d` affairs was summoned to Iran’s foreign ministry on Dec. 21, in protest at a secret meeting between European Union parliamentary delegation with two Iranian dissidents in Tehran, IRNA news agency reported on Dec. 22.
The meeting was held in the Greek Embassy in Tehran.
European Union parliamentary delegation who visited Tehran recently met with Jafar Panahi and Nasrin Sotoudeh, the 2012 winners of the EU’s Sakharov.
They both had been convicted to terms of prison due to involvement in anti-government protests in Tehran following 2009 presidential elections.
Sotoudeh was freed from jail in September after serving three years of an 11-year sentence and handed a 20-year ban from practising law for “acting against national security and propaganda against the regime”.
Sotoudeh was released from jail with a nearly dozen other political prisoners in September, part of a charm offensive by new President Hassan Rouhani.
Panahi was detained for a documentary he tried to make on the 2009 unrest and was banned from making more films for 20 years.
According to the Iranian foreign ministry Website, the Greek charge d` affairs was summoned and was told that Iran is dissatisfied with the EU parliamentary delegation move.
The charge d` affairs was also told that Tehran sees the act as “contrary to goodwill” and that Iranian Embassy in Brussels had warned the European delegation about such a meeting prior to their visit to Tehran.
Earlier some Iranian MPs criticized the foreign ministry for the meeting, asking the ministry to explain over EU Parliamentarians trip to Iran.
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