Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh میرحسین موسوی خامنه | |
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| Prime Minister of Iran | |
| In office 31 October 1981 – 3 August 1989 | |
| President | Ali Khamenei |
| Leader | Ruhollah Khomeini Ali Khamenei |
| Preceded by | Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office August 15, 1981 – December 15, 1981 | |
| President | Mohammad-Ali Rajai Ali Khamenei |
| Prime Minister | Mohammad-Javad Bahonar Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (acting) Himself |
| Leader | Ruhollah Khomeini |
| Preceded by | Mohammad-Ali Rajai |
| Succeeded by | Ali Akbar Velayati |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 September 1941 Khameneh, Iran |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Zahra Rahnavard |
| Alma mater | Shahid Beheshti University |
Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh (Persian: میرحسین موسوی خامنه; born 29 September 1941) is an Iranian politician, painter and architect. He belongs to the Iranian reform movement. He was the fifth Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 1981 to 1989. After his term, the constitution was changed, and the post of prime minister was abolished. Mousavi was the president of the Iranian Academy of Arts. He was a candidate in the 2009 presidential election. After the protests that followed the election, he was removed from his position at the Academy.
Mousavi was Minister of Foreign Affairs for a short time before he became Prime Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1989. The office of Prime Minister was later abolished.
He was president of the Iranian Academy of Arts until 2009, when the Academy removed him following the post-election protests.
In the early years after the 1979 Revolution, Mousavi was editor-in-chief of Jomhouri-e Eslami, the newspaper of the Islamic Republican Party.
After 1989, Mousavi had been appointed to high-level councils such as the Expediency Discernment Council and the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution. However, he stopped attending their meetings after many years, and he was effectively removed from active participation following the 2009 election events.
In the 2009 presidential election, Mousavi ran as a reformist candidate. He chose green as his campaign colour, which later became a symbol of the protests that followed the election.
