Mir-Hussein

With such an oppressive atmosphere in most of Iran's big cities, few ordinary Iranians have had time to think or care much about the fate of opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi and Mir-Hussein Mousavi, who along with their wives, have been living under house arrest for more than five months.

Camelia Entekhabi-Fard: Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi: The Two Forgotten Men Camelia Entekhabi-Fard 2011

Writing in the Weekly Standard, Reuel Marc Gerecht suggests that the clerics’ dissent “guts the religious attacks of Khamenei’s most powerful allies – the Revolutionary Guard Corps and their baton-wielding thuggish appendage, the Basij – against Mir-Hussein Mousavi, the leader of the opposition.”

Wonk Room » The Growing Iranian Clerical Critique 2009