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State News Reports Iran's Education Minister Has Resigned

by Associated Press

   TEHRAN, IRAN --

   The state-run IRNA news agency is reporting that Iran's minister of
   education has resigned to run for a seat in parliament in February
   2020.
   IRNA said Thursday that President Hassan Rouhani approved Mohammad
   Bathaei's resignation.
   Earlier, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported that Bathaei
   handed in his resignation to the president at a Cabinet meeting.
   The resignation comes after Iranian teachers held several nationwide
   strikes over the last two years to protest low wages. Since April, some
   lawmakers had begun to talk about Bathaei's impeachment.
   Bathaei took office in August 2017 after the Iranian parliament voted
   him in as a minister during Rouhani's second term.