
Mir Hossein Mousavi
Rafsanjani's Gambit Backfires
By M K Bhadrakumar
Who is Mir Hossein Mousavi, Ahmedinejad's main opponent in the election? He is an enigma wrapped in mystery. He impressed the Iranian youth and the urban middle class as a reformer and a modernist. Yet, as Iran's prime minister during 1981-89, Mousavi was an unvarnished hardliner. Ref. Source 4