Iran’s former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, who was the focus of a 2009 mass protest movement and has spent the last 15 years under house arrest, has been hospitalized after his health deteriorated, an adviser says.
Mousavi, the last person to serve as Iran’s premier before the post was abolished, had claimed to be the rightful victor of the disputed 2009 presidential elections.
Most recently, he urged Iran’s clerical leadership to step down because of its deadly crackdown on protesters in January in which many thousands were killed.
Last week, “he suffered a health crisis and was transferred to a hospital,” his adviser Ardeshir Amir Arjomand, who is based outside Iran, tells BBC Persian.
“He is now hospitalized, although his condition has improved since today,” he adds.
Arjomand claims Mousavi’s condition had been affected by being moved to a new location when his previous residence in central Tehran was damaged in the US-Israeli strike on February 28 that killed supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
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