Ahmadinejad Moves to Remove Mousavi from the Academy of Arts

Here is the story in Farsi and here is an English translation from Mousavi's Facebook:

Ahmadinejad in an unprecedented act, as the head of the Revolutionary Cultural Council, by issuing a new memo... changed the existing constitution of the Academy of Arts so that it would lay the grounds for dismissing Mir Hossein Mousavi as the president of the Academy. According to this new amendment the president of the Academy would be appointed directly by the president (Ahmadinejad himself) even without any consultation with the members of the Academy! During Khatami’s administration it was approved that the president of the Academy would be elected by the permanent members of Academy’s General Assembly and the president as the head of the Revolutionary Cultural Court would approve the nominee as the president of the Academy of Arts.

There is no need to look further to get the point that this new amendment was issued with the aim of dismissing Mir Hossein Mousavi as the president of the Academy of Arts by Ahmadinejad. Mir Hossein Mousavi has been elected as the head of the Academy of Arts by the General Assembly for his great performance since it was founded about ten years ago. Although there are many speculations that Mousavi was going to resign as the president of the Academy of Arts before the end of his current term so that he would not need to get an “approval” (according to the old amendment) from Ahmadinejad for the new term, but the latest act by Ahmadinejad just shows his desperation and determination in isolating Mir Hossein Mousavi from the social and political scene of the country even by entering politics into arts!