Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Politician
1942 –
Who is Mir-Hossein Mousavi?
Seyyed Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh 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.
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- Born
- Mar 2, 1942
Khamaneh - Parents
- Spouses
- Zahra Rahnavard
(1969/09/18 - )
- Zahra Rahnavard
- Children
- Religion
- Shia Islam
- Ethnicity
- Musavi
- Al Mosawi
- Azerbaijani people
- Nationality
- Iran
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Architecture, Shahid Beheshti University
Architecture
( - 1969)
- Master of Architecture, Shahid Beheshti University
- Lived in
- Tehran
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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