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Sotoudeh and Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi won the EU's Sakharov prize for human rights in 2012 (Photo: europarl.europa.eu)

Member states want EU embassy in Iran, MEP says

EU countries have informally told the European Parliament they want the Union's foreign service to open an embassy in Iran.

Tarja Cronberg, a Finnish Green MEP who chairs the parliament's Iran delegation, said member states' ambassadors in Tehran backed the idea when she met them in the Iranian capital on an official trip earlier this month.

"We held a meeting with all the [EU] ambassadors and they really stressed the importance of more open exchange … They said the best tool fo...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

Sotoudeh and Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi won the EU's Sakharov prize for human rights in 2012 (Photo: europarl.europa.eu)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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