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
2009 Iranian presidential election towards the incumbent president. This finding almost exactly matches up with the proportion of the vote that Ahmadinejad received. On 1 June, a campaign office of Ahmadinejad's primary opponent, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, was torched. The office was located in the city of Qom. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. At the same time, it was reported that an assassination had been attempted against former president Mohammad Khatami by means of a bomb placed on an aircraft he was to board. Mobile phone communications were interrupted in Tehran on election day and the BBC has stated that "heavy electronic jamming" was