Mousavi: The Story Behind the Man

Tehran Bureau profiles the main leader of the Green movement:

Even a cursory glance at the events of the last ten months demonstrates the astonishingly swift political evolution of Mousavi as a national leader. Though much of the country, particularly the young generation, is only just discovering him, those old enough to vividly recall the Iran of the 1970s and 1980s know that this evolution rests upon a significant record.

Among interesting tidbits, Mousavi is fluent in English, Arabic, and Turkish in addition to Farsi and sent his wife and their first two daughters to the United States in 1976, where they stayed until returning shortly before the revolution.