Reform Candidate’s Wife New Political Star In Iran (ap)

FILE - This May 25m 2009, file photo of leading reformist candidate in the upcoming Iranian presidential elections, Mir Hossein Mousavi, right, gesturing to his supporters, with his wife Zahra Rahnavard, during a campaign rally in Tabriz, Iran, Monday, May 25, 2009. Mousavi, a former prime minister of Iran, is one of the main challengers of the hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June 12 presidential elections. The political power couple is a common fixture in campaigns in West, but Mousavi and his wife are breaking new ground in Iran in the race for the June 12 presidential election.AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)AP – Presidential hopeful Mir Hossein Mousavi waited in the wings as his wife warmed up the crowd. Zahra Rahnavard quickly had them roaring in approval ? and her husband beaming ? as she ticked off her demands for women’s rights and other reforms.

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