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Sep 29, 1941 Khamaneh, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran 82 years old
Iranian politician and architect
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Mir Hossein Mousavi - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Mir Hossein Mousavi
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh (Persian: ??????? ????? ??????, romanized: Mir-Hoseyn Musavi Khamené, pronounced [mi?? ho's?jn ? mu?sæ'vi? j? x??m?'n?]; 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 prior to 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.
