Junbish-i Sabz-i Īrān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Tamadonfar, Mehran
Leiden
Brill
(3,390 words)
Junbish-i Sabz-i Īrān (The Green Movement of Iran) is the civil and political rights movement framed in democratic and Islamic principles, premises, and symbols that emerged in the context of Iran's 2009 presidential elections. The tenth presidential election in Iran was held on Friday 12 June 2009. In this election, the incumbent conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Maḥmūd Aḥmadīnizhād) was challenged by three candidates, the most prominent being former prime minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi (Mīr Ḥusayn Mūsavī). Massive street demonstrations by the progressives in support of Mousavi and his