Mousavi fired from Arts Institution post

Mir Hossein Mousavi has been fired from his job as the head of Iran's Arts Institution, one of his two public positions, according to the BBC.

Mousavi had run the office for 11 years before he was dismissed by the Council for Cultural Revolution, a board chaired by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The BBC describes the Arts Institution job as Mousavi's "only public post," but -- unless we're mistaken -- he also still serves on the Expediency Council, which advises the supreme leader.

Mousavi's dismissal comes 24 hours after his motorcade was allegedly attacked by Basij militiamen. The opposition leader was returning to Tehran from Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri's funeral in Qom when a group of Basij reportedly stopped the motorcade, yelled insults and shattered a window.