What led to widespread protests in Iran in 2009?

Widespread protests erupted after Iran’s 2009 presidential election, when supporters of opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi accused officials of manipulating the results in favor of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. These charges of election fraud sparked the Green Movement protests. The overthrow of the shah happened in 1979, not 2009.

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