Mir-Hossein Mousavi: Opposition Leader & Candidate for the 2009 Iranian Presidential Election

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6th Day - Mousavi n His wife
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Currently: Today, at considerable personal risk, the 67-year-old artist, architect and grandfather pops up at massive rallies, speaks briefly into a hand-held loudhailer, then vanishes again.

He sends letters to the Guardian Council, the election commission and other institutions, denouncing their “disgusting” attempts to rig the election. He openly defies Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, who demanded on Friday that the demonstrations end. Read the story…

Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh (Persian??????? ????? ?????) (born 29 September 1941) is an Iranian reformist politician, painter and architect who served as the fifth and last Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 1981 to 1989. Mousavi is currently the president of the Iranian Academy of Arts and was a candidate for the 2009 presidential election.  Read the rest of his bio…

http://www.mir-hosseinmousavi.com/

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Opposition Protest at Azadi Square, Tehran June 15, 2009
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3rd Day - The Green Vicrtory Sign
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  1. He looks like a more open-minded choice for Iran but I don’t see how he can actually win the elections

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