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Mir Hossein Mousavi

Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi at a rally in Tehran, 2009 (photo credit: CC BY-Hamed Saber/Wikimedia Commons)
June 5, 2026, 10:50 pm
Iran’s reformist ex-PM hospitalized after 15 years under house arrest, aide says
Mir Hossein Mousavi was focus of 2009 mass protests after he was declared loser of disputed election; his condition is said to have worsened after Feb. 28 airstrike damaged his home
By AFP
Commuters drive under a banner that reads 'this is not a protest' next to a picture of a burnt-out bus, in Tehran, Iran, on January 15, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
January 15, 2026, 7:52 pm
Trump stalls on Iran intervention, leaving an uncertain future for a divided nation
Iranians will feel ‘abandoned and discouraged’ by US president’s apparent backing-off from strikes on Islamic Republic, but confrontation would have been ‘disastrous,’ says expert
By The Conversation
File: Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami speaks during a gathering in Tehran to support a leading reformist candidate in presidential elections on May 23, 2009. (AP photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
February 5, 2023, 6:37 pm
Ex-president and former PM of Iran speak out in favor of political reform
Mohammad Khatami says he is seeing ‘widespread discontent’ among citizens, while Mir Hossein Mousavi says Iranians need to see ‘a fundamental transformation’ in their country
By AFP
Mir Hossein Mousavi waves to his supporters as he arrives at a campaign gathering in downtown Tehran, Iran, June 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
February 5, 2023, 1:28 pm
Amid protests, Iran opposition leader calls for referendum on new constitution
Mir Hossein Mousavi, a former official in Tehran’s theocracy who has been under house arrest for years, argues the current system handing supreme leader final say no longer works
By AP
Leading challenger and reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi speaks to the media after casting his vote with his wife Zahra Rahnavard, right, in the Iranian presidential elections at the Ershad mosque, on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran, June 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
November 16, 2020, 1:41 am
Iran says detained opposition leader, wife tested positive for coronavirus
Report by semi-official site says Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard feel well; pair has been under house arrest for 9 years after losing disputed 2009 election
By AP
Ayatollah Yousef Saanei October 8, 2008. (Screengrab: YouTube)
September 13, 2020, 10:15 am
Pro-reform Iranian religious leader dies aged 83
Critic of hardline former president Ahmadinejad and supporter of pro-reform Iranian politicians, Ayatollah Yousef Saanei had been hospitalized with broken hip and wrist
By AP
In this January 8, 2020, file photo a rescue worker searches the scene where a Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
January 27, 2020, 11:42 am
Downing of Ukrainian jet in Iran reveals Islamic Republic’s wider woes
Tehran faces a paramilitary Guard that keeps its own government in the dark, a supreme leader above oversight or reproach, and mounting economic troubles and popular fury
By Jon Gambrell
A supporter of Iranian presidential candidate Hasan Rouhani holds up a poster of Green Movement leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, while celebrating Rouhani's victory, in Tehran, Saturday, June 15, 2013. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
December 1, 2019, 4:03 am
Iran opposition leader compares Khamenei to ousted shah
Mir Hossein Mousavi, under house arrest for years, says regime crackdown on protesters exactly like oppression under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, which led to overthrow of monarchy
By AP
Mehdi Karroubi lecturing in Zanjan University in Iran, 2009. (Wikipedia/Mardetanha/CC BY-SA 3.0)
January 30, 2018, 5:21 pm
Opposition figure voices rare criticism of Iran’s supreme leader
Mahdi Karroubi says Ayatollah Khamenei violating the constitution, urges him to order the Revolutionary Guards to loosen grip on the economy
By AP
Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)
October 19, 2017, 1:26 pm
Iranian authorities bar reformist ex-president from meeting
Three security vehicles at home of Mohammad Khatami prevent him from attending talks with his supporters
By AP
Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi casting his ballot at a polling station in Tehran, June 12, 2009. (ATTA KENARE / AFP/ File)
August 20, 2017, 8:38 pm
Iran reformist leader calls for politicians’ release
Khatami asks Khamenei to intervene to help two protest leaders, under house arrest for past six years
By AFP
Mehdi Karroubi lecturing in Zanjan University in Iran, 2009. (Wikipedia/Mardetanha/CC BY-SA 3.0)
August 18, 2017, 10:55 am
Iran opposition leader ends hunger strike after day
Ailing Mehdi Karroubi, 79, quits fast after regime agrees to remove intelligence agents from home, but demand to face trial remains unmet
By AFP
Narges Mousavi, an Iranian artist and daughter of Mir Hossein Mousavi, stands during her exhibition in 'House of Free Designers' art gallery in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)
August 11, 2017, 11:54 pm
Iran opposition head’s daughter displays paintings
Artworks combine images symbolizing freedom with representations of bullets, gas masks and jail cell bars
By Amir Vahdat
Supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Hassan Rouhani hold his portrait during a campaign rally in the capital Tehran on May 4, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)
May 8, 2017, 4:57 pm
Iran’s Rouhani says election rivals are ‘violent extremists’
Incumbent president faces uphill battle against hardliners in campaign to improve civil liberties
By AFP
Supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Hassan Rouhani hold his portrait during a campaign rally in the capital Tehran on May 4, 2017. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
May 7, 2017, 2:35 am
Iran TV censors Rouhani campaign documentary ahead of elections
Move seen as step by conservatives to hamper incumbent’s May 19 reelection bid
By Nasser Karimi
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