Iran exile website: Mousavi hospitalized for tests

Published August 23, 2012 8:50pm ET



DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian exile website is reporting the country’s main opposition leader has been hospitalized for heart tests.

Former presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has been under house arrest since widespread crackdowns in early 2011 after protests over the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009.

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