Mir-Hossein Mousavi Prime minister

Seyyed Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh (Persian: میرحسین موسوی خامنه‎, pronounced [miːɾ hoˈsein muːsæˈviː xɒːmeˈne], Mīr-Hoseyn Mūsavī Khāmené; Azerbaijani: میرحسین موسوی, Mir Hüseyn Musəvi; 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 opposition 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 early years of the revolution, Mousavi was the editor-in-chief of Jomhouri-e Eslami, the official newspaper of the Islamic Republican Party, before being elevated to Minister of Foreign Affairs and eventually the post of Prime Minister. He was the last Prime Minister in Iran before the 1989 constitutional changes which removed the post of prime minister; he then went into semi-retirement for the next 20 years. He remains a member 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 political 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 against the administration of incumbent President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. According to official results he didn't win the election, and following alleged vote rigging and manipulation, his campaign sparked a long protest that eventually turned into a national and international movement against the Government and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Despite the violent crackdown, he remains the leader of the Green Movement but his movements have remained severely restricted. He chose green as his campaign color, a color which is pervasive in Iran. He is currently under house arrest along with his wife and Mehdi Karroubi.

Personal facts

Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Birth dateMarch 02, 1942
Birth place
Pahlavi dynasty , Khamaneh
Religion
Shia Islam
Residence
Tehran , Pahlavi dynasty
Education
Shahid Beheshti University
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office
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Prime Minister of Iran
Deputy Leader of the Islamic Republican Party
other party
Islamic Republican Party
party
The Green Path of Hope
president
prime minister
successor

Prime minister

FromFebruary 18, 1981
ToDecember 15, 1981

Mir-Hossein Mousavi on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.kaleme.net
  2. http://www.kaleme.org
  3. http://www.nowpublic.com/world/green-movement-during-irans-presidential-election
  4. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/02/the-political-evolution-of-mousavi.html