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...elected President of Iran in 1981 and reelected in 1985. During his two terms, was a key player in guiding policy for the Iran-Iraq war - working with Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the primary challenger in this month's election...
Read a 2-Min. Bio of Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the challenger in Iran's election Read TIME's Top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms
...surreally flattened world of social media, those things aren't as far apart as they used to be - and what began as a toy for online flirtation is suddenly being put to much more serious uses. After the election in Iran, cries of protest from supporters of opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi arose in all possible media, but the loudest cries were heard in a medium that didn't even exist the last time Iran had an election. (See pictures of Iran's presidential election and its turbulent aftermath...
...gestures, but few have been as brave as the stand taken by some players on Iran's national soccer team on June 17. In a World Cup qualifying match in South Korea, at least six Iranian players wore green wristbands in a defiant show of support for opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi, including team captain Mohammed Ali Karimi...
Khamenei's abrupt dismissal of reform candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi's supporters also suggests that he has lost touch with a central principle of the Islamic revolution, says Gary Sick, Jimmy Carter's top White House adviser on Iran during that period. Mousavi's supporters were mobilized by feelings of injustice, "that they've been dealt with contempt by their leaders," says Sick. "That sense of being wronged and betrayed is a driving feature in Iran," as powerful as the widespread anger over false arrest and torture by the Shah's secret police...