Harry Chin
Professor Knapp
Revolutionary Leaders: Mir Husayn Musavi
Mir Husayn Musavi was a great man who helped the Iranian economy and gave people a voice against the corrupted actions by the government. He wanted to create a peaceful environment and connect ties between other countries. Mir Husayn Musavi was born on March 2, 1942 in Khameneh, Iran. During his university life, he was a member of the Islamic association at his school. Zahra Rahnavard was born on October 31, 1945. She was an artist and politician who had similar views to Musavi and also believed in women rights briefly based on what the Guardian News states. Mousavi had particular beliefs on how things should run in the country. Mousavi states, “There are two ways of confronting the country's problems. One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance, superficiality and ignoring the law. The second way is based on realism, respect, openness, collective wisdom and avoiding extremism.” (Bozorgmehr). Through this speech, he was convince the people and be able to apply his beliefs onto them during his presidency.
In 1969, Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard got
married. Mousavi and his wife played a big role during the Iranian revolution. That
is exactly what he intended to do. Musavi protested on the street against the
government monarchy. Eventually the protesters were able to overthrow and
replace the monarchy government system with the Islamic republic. In August
1981, the prime minister and president of Iran were killed in a huge explosion.
A couple months after on October, a new president was elected in Iran called
Ali Khamenei. He then attempted to appoint the prime minster position to one of
his close men, but the Iranian parliament did not allow it. Khamenei had strong
negative feeling against Mousavi because of his political views, but finally a
compromise was made with the parliament allowing Mousavi to run as prime
minister of Iran. On October 28 1981, both Khomeini and the parliament finally agreed
to have Mousavi become the 79th prime minister of Iran. He became
prime minister on October 31, 1981. All was going well at the beginning of it. But
soon, many conflicts arose between these two. In 1988 after the Iranian war,
there one huge conflict between these two parties that caused Mousavi to step
down and resign from his position. People believed that Musavi might have been
involved with the killings of innocent civilians. He decided to retire from
politics for a while.
On
June 12, 2009, Mousavi was ready to tackle on the world of politics. He was a reformist
candidate for the election for presidency in Iran. The final voting results
showed that he lost to his opposing candidate by a huge difference. Musavi and
his followers suspected that the voting results may have been manipulated. Some
citizens believed that the current leader of the parliament rigged the election
to keep the current family in power. It was later revealed that the current
government did try to hide the fact that the election count was rigged and
Musavi decided to take action yet again. Musavi, a leader, called for his group
of followers to create a large protest against the Iranian government. He knew
something had to be done to stop the government’s ability to conceal their
corrupted actions. According to the News Republic, Musavi start a movement
called the Green Movement in which the people wanted to remove the current
president from power. Initially, this movement was for Musavi’s campaign, but
later it represented unity and belief of the people in Iran. Today, Mousavi and
other leaders with similar beliefs are coming up with new peaceful assertive
ways to spread this belief. Also, they have renamed their new group to The
Green Path of Hope. By doing this Mousavi wants the people or Iran to be
educated with the truth, not the lies that the government has be telling them.
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