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Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh
(
Persian
:
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; born 29 September 1941) is an
Iranian
politician
,
painter
and
architect
. He belongs to the
Iranian reform movement
.
He was the fifth
Prime Minister
of the Islamic Republic of
Iran
from 1981 to 1989. After his term, the
constitution
was changed, and the post of prime minister was abolished. Mousavi is currently the president of the
Iranian Academy of Arts
. He also was a candidate for the
2009 presidential election
.
Before his post as prime minister, he was the
Minister of Foreign Affairs
. He is also a member of the
Expediency Discernment Council
and the
High Council of Cultural Revolution
. He has not attended their meetings for years. Political analysts think that he does not like these councils. In the early years of the revolution, Mousavi was the editor-in-chief of the official
newspaper
of the
Islamic Republican Party
, the
Jomhouri-e Eslami
(Islamic Republic) newspaper. In
2009 presidential election
, Mousavi chose
green
as his campaign color, a color which has since become common in
Iran
.
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