Iran's presidential hopeful Mir-Hossein Mousavi said that Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has disgraced Iranians, local Press TV reported Sunday.

Presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi accused President Ahmadinejad of "disgracing" the Iranian nation on the international scene, the report said.

"Our (Iranian) prestige is not about one person. All Iranians have a share in it. This administration does things, however, it undermines that prestige," said Mousavi when addressing university students in Iran's central city of Isfahan Saturday.

Criticizing Ahmadinejad over his April speech in the UN anti-racism conference in Geneva, he said that "the president had jeopardized the stature of the Iranian nation with thoughtless policies."

He also accused the Ahmadinejad administration of releasing faulty figures to the public to avoid criticism of its performance.

Mousavi, who claimed to represent the reform camp, is a politician, painter and architect, and was prime minister of Iran from 1981 to 1989 under the then President Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

He was the last prime minister of Iran before a change in the constitution which removed the post.

Mousavi, who is the major rival of Ahmadinejad for the presidential elections on June 12, has repeatedly criticized the incumbent government's economic policy which he called an alms-based one.

Source:Xinhua