IranWire:

After a short-lived stint as deputy head of Iran’s Environmental Protection Agency, Kaveh Madani, who had previously worked and taught in the United States and the United Kingdom, has decided to leave Iran.

The news follows the arrest of Madani and other environmentalists in February, after which Madani spent a brief time in custody. . Mahmood Sadeghi, a reformist member of parliament from Tehran, publicized Madani’s decision on Twitter, where he also revealed that the travel ban on Madani’s wife had been lifted and she had left Iran as well. “This should teach a lesson to Iranian elites living outside Iran,” he wrote.

The website Ensaf News reported that Madani was in Thailand for a conference about environmental issues when he submitted his resignation, which officials accepted. [Persian link].

In his first tweet after resigning, Madani quoted a poem by the Iranian contemporary poet Houshang Ebtehaj: “Sore are my feet and short is my breath, but I departed the way I wanted.”

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