December 01, 2009
Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers
Zahra Rahnavard made the list as the brains behind Iran's Green Revolution and for having organized supporters through rallies, Facebook, Twitter, and text messages.
In Foreign Policy Magazine's first annual list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers, Iranian political scientist and reformer Zahra Rahnavard is listed as number three, having performed a criticial role in the 2009 Iranian presidential election.
Rahnavard is credited with creating the Green Revolution in which Iranian protesters draped themselves in green attire and changed their social networking profiles to green in a display of support for Rahnavard's husband, opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi.
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