Dateline: Iran. Mousavi Art.
Friday, June 19, 2009 at 03:15PM
Mark Kaufman in Illustration of the Day

Mir-Hossein Mousavi (Khameneh), The Queen's Park, 1972, Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art CollectionBy Mark Kaufman

I was up until 3am PST last night watching a live broadcast of the Ayatollah Khamenei speech at Tehran University last night. Reports breaking a while ago are that those close to Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi have been arrested, and his contact with the outside world has been restricted. I do not know much about Iran, Iranian politics or what will happen after Khameni's hard line stance, but I now know that Mousavi is an artist and an architect in addition to being a politician and revolutionary. Go here and here for interesting articles on Mousavi.

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