
Iranian hardliners have criticized the Foreign Ministry for a meeting between the European Parliamentary delegation and lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and filmmaker Jafar Panahi.
The EU delegation met with Panahi and Sotoudeh, the 2012 winners of the EU�s Sakharov prize for human rights at embassy of Greece in Tehran.�They �were both jailed following the Iranian election protests of 2009.
A �delegation from the European parliament traveled to Tehran �for a six-day visit.�It was the first such visit to Iran in six years.