Timeline of the 2009 Iranian election protests resigned in protest of the Iranian government's hardline stance. Iranian security forces raided the office of Mir Hossein Mousavi. Students protest at Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran. They are attacked by the basij and the protest is suppressed. Iran's opposition has called for renewed street protests next week on the back of the wave of demonstrations that have swept across the Middle East. Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the leaders of the green movement in Iran, have issued a call for what they have described as "a solidarity move to support the protests in two Muslim countries of
Iranian Green Movement a regular presidential election. Former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi was the most popular candidate opposed to Ahmadinejad. The election took place on June 12, 2009 and rapidly caused the significant controversy caused by the disagreement between the government and the opposition over the results of the election. Ahmadinejad was considered to be winning in a landslide, but Mousavi and his supporters believed the results were fraudulent. They suggested that the Interior Minister Sadegh Mahsouli, an ally of Ahmadinejad, had interfered with the election and distorted the votes to keep Ahmadinejad in power. Mousavi claimed victory and called for his supporters