The Bride Wore Green
What a Wedding Says about Iran's Future
By Robin Wright
What a Wedding Says about Iran's Future
By Robin Wright
Wearing a flowing green gown and a
string of pearls that hung, flapper-style, below her waist, Narges Mousavi was
married Friday, in Tehran. The bride, a painter, was born into the
revolutionary élite. Her father, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, was Iran’s Prime Minister
for eight years. In the eighties, he led the new Islamic Republic through a
grisly eight-year war with Iraq at a time when the world sided largely with
Saddam Hussein, and in 2009 he ran for the Presidency. The bride’s mother is
Zahra Rahnavard, a sculptor and the Islamic Republic’s first female university
chancellor. During her husband’s campaign, the Iranian media compared
Rahnavard’s lively appearances to Michelle Obama’s.
Neither of Mousavi’s parents attended the wedding. For
the past five years, they have been under house arrest for their role in the
Green Movement protests that challenged the 2009 election results. They have
never been charged, never tried—just isolated. Narges, the youngest of their
three daughters, can see her parents only when she receives a call telling
her to visit. Visits are limited to an hour.
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