TEHRAN - OPPOSITION leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has said that most Iranians will not consider the new government to be formed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as legitimate, his website reported on Wednesday.

'The majority of the society to which I belong will not recognise the legitimacy of the (future) government,' Mr Mousavi said, according to a statement posted on his website.

'We will have a government that will have the worst relationship with the people,' said Mr Mousavi, who was defeated him in the June 12 presidential election by Mr Ahmadinejad. -- AFP