Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh is an Iranian

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

 reformist politician, artist and architect who served as the seventy-ninth and last Prime Minister of Iran

Prime Minister of Iran

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 from 1981 to 1989. He was a Reformist candidate for the 2009 presidential election

Iranian presidential election, 2009

Iran's tenth presidential election was held on 12 June 2009, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers. The next morning the Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's official news agency, announced that with two-thirds of the votes counted, Ahmadinejad had won the election...

 and eventually the leader of the opposition in the post-election unrest. Mousavi served as the president of the Iranian Academy of Arts

Iranian Academy of the Arts

The Iranian Academy of Arts was established in March 2000. It is one of the four academies of the Islamic Republic of Iran; the other three are: The Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences, The Iranian Academy of Sciences and The Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature...

 until 2009, when Conservative authorities removed him.

In the early years of the revolution, Mousavi was the editor-in-chief of the official newspaper of the Islamic Republican Party

Islamic Republican party

The Islamic Republican Party was a political party in Iran, formed in mid-1979 to assist the Iranian Revolution and Ayatollah Khomeini establish theocracy in Iran...

, the Islamic Republic newspaper

Jomhouri-e Eslami

Jomhouri-e Eslami is an official Iranian newspaper, which started its work on May 30, 1979, as the newspaper of Islamic Republic Party. In the beginning it was under the grantee of Islamic Republic Party and its managing director was Ali Khamenei...

, before being elevated to Minister of Foreign Affairs

Minister of Foreign Affairs (Iran)

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 and eventually the post of Prime Minister.