5 facts about Mir-Hossein Mousavi

Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh (Persian: میرحسین موسوی خامنه‎, romanized: Mīr-Hoseyn Mūsavī Khāmené, pronounced [miːɾ hoˈsɛjn ɛ muːsæˈviː jɛ xɑːmɛˈnɛ]; born 2 March 1942) is an Iranian reformist politician, artist and architect who served as the seventy-ninth and last Prime Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1989. He was a reformist candidate for the 2009 presidential election and eventually the leader of the opponent in the post-election unrest. Mousavi served as the president of the Iranian Academy of Arts until 2009, when Conservative authorities removed him.

In the into the future years of the revolution, Mousavi was the editor-in-chief of Jomhouri-e Eslami, the ascribed newspaper of the Islamic Republican Party, before innate elevated to Minister of Foreign Affairs and eventually the read out of Prime Minister. He was the last Prime Minister in Iran prior to the 1989 constitutional changes which removed the post of the prime minister; he next went into semi-retirement for the next-door 20 years. He remains a fanatic of the Expediency Discernment Council and the High Council of Cultural Revolution. However, he has not participated in their meetings for years, which is interpreted by diplomatic analysts and commentators as a sign of his disapproval.

For the 2009 Iranian Presidential election, Mousavi came out of semi-retirement and ran as one of two Reformist candidates neighboring the administration of incumbent President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. According to credited results, he didn’t win the election, and when alleged vote-rigging and manipulation, his whisk sparked a long bustle that eventually turned into a national and international movement neighboring the Government and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Despite the violent crackdown, he remains the leader of the Green Movement but his movements have remained very restricted. He chose green as his move around color, a color which is pervasive in Iran. He is currently under home arrest along considering his wife and Mehdi Karroubi.