Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mousavi also spelled Moussavi, (born September 29, 1941, Khāmeneh, Iran), Iranian architect, painter, intellectual, and politician who served as Iran’s prime minister (1981–89) and as a presidential adviser (1989–2005). Mousavi was raised in Khāmeneh, near Tabrīz, in northwestern Iran. He received an M.A. in architecture from the National University of Iran (later Shahīd Beheshtī University) in 1969, and he returned to that institution several years later as an instructor. During his tenure there Mousavi participated in the underground resistance movement to the regime of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. Following the Iranian Revolution (1978–79), Mousavi served as the
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