Mir-Hossein Mousavi

Mir-Hossein Mousavi میرحسینموسوی , born in 1941, was Prime Minister of the Iran of 1981 with 1988, under the presidency of Ali Khamenei. He was the last Prime Minister of Iran before the modification of the constitution which removed the post of Prime Minister. Before that, he had been Foreign Minister. He is currently president of the Iranian Académie of arts, adviser of the president. He is also member of the Conseil of understanding and the High council for the Cultural revolution.

He was regarded as one of the possible candidates of the alliance of the reformers to the presidential election of 2005. He finally declined the offer of certain parties of the alliance of the reformers the October 12th 2004, after a meeting with Mohammad Khatami and two other members of the Société of the militant clerks , Mehdi Karroubi and Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha.

Mousavi also refused to be presented to the election of 1997, which turned the reformists towards Mohammad Khatami, who gained with a broad advance. The woman of Mousavi, Zahra Rahnavard explained in an interview that it was not presented to the elections in 1997 because it would have received messages aiming to discourage it on behalf of eminent members of the administration. This declaration could refer to the supreme guide Ali Khamenei or to the president of the time, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

At the beginning of the Iranian Revolution, Mousavi was editor of the official journal of the Parti the Islamic Republic, Jomhouri-e Eslami (“Islamic Republic”).

Mousavi has a diploma of architecture of the Université of Teheran and painted occasionally. It belongs to the ethnicity of the Azeri .

It seldom made political declarations since it left its station in 1988.

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