AJC Welcomes Tough Grilling of Iranian Parliamentarians in European Parliament | AJC Transatlantic Institute

Brussels – 23 January 2018 – AJC welcomes the tough grilling a group of Iranian parliamentarians received today in the European Parliament. In an unusual step for such meetings with foreign lawmakers, the Chair of the EP Foreign Affairs Committee, David McAllister, opened the session with some harsh criticism for the guests. The German Christian-Democrat specifically challenged Iran’s human rights violations and demanded answers about last week’s police raids in Germany on suspected Iranian agents believed to have targeted Israeli and Jewish sites: