Mir-Hossein Mousavi

Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh (Persian:میرحسین موسوی خامنه‎‎, pronounced [miːɾ hoˈsɛjn ɛ muːsæˈviː jɛ xɑːmeˈne], Mīr-Hoseyn Mūsavī Khāmené; 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.