This Night Will End: Mir Hossein Mousavi and the Long Argument for Iran, 20092026

In 2009, millions of Iranians took to the streets asking a single question: Where is my vote? At the heart of that uprising stood Mir Hossein Mousavi - former prime minister, painter, and architect - who refused to bend. He has been under house arrest ever since. This Night Will End gathers, for the first time in English, the complete arc of Mousavi's political statements: from the fiery communiqués of the Green Movement through the long silence of captivity to the searing letters of 2019-2026, culminating in his unforgettable call - "The game is over. Lay down your guns." Accompanied by two landmark introductions by Daryoush Mohammad Poor - one written in the heat of 2012, the other from the vantage of 2026 - this volume reveals a thinker whose commitment to nonviolence, pluralism, and the sovereignty of the people has only deepened under persecution. Part political manifesto, part moral testament, This Night Will End is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Iran's unfinished revolution and the enduring power of principled dissent.