Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh (میرحسین موسوی خامنه) (born 29 September 1941 in Khameneh, East Azarbaijan, Iran) is an Iranian reformist politician, painter and architect who served as the fifth and last Prime Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1989. Mousavi is currently the president of the Iranian Academy of Arts.
He was the last prime minister in Iran before the constitutional changes which removed the post of prime minister. Before that, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council and the High Council of Cultural Revolution. However as of 2009 he has not been participating in their meetings for a long time which is interpreted by political analysts and commentators as a sign of his disapproval. Mousavi holds a Masters degree in Architecture from Shahid Beheshti University (melli). In the early years of the revolution, Mousavi was the editor-in-chief of the official newspaper of the Islamic Republic Party, the Jomhouri-e Eslami (Islamic Republic) newspaper.
After 20 years of political silence, on 9 March 2009 he announced his bid to run in the 2009 Iranian Presidential Election, which has since been welcomed by many Iranians who still recall his time as Prime Minister.
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