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* Green Revolution is a term widely used to describe the 2009 – 2010 Iranian election protests.

The protests began in 2009, several years after the main wave of colour revolutions, although like them it began due to a disputed election, the 2009 Iranian presidential election.

Protesters adopted the colour green as their symbol because it had been the campaign colour of presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, whom many protesters thought had won the elections.

However Mousavi failed to show any credible evidence that he had won the election.