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Kaveh Madani, a Rice Senior Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, interacts with students while teaching a class at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S., January 28, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
TORONTO, Canada (Reuters) -Iranian scientist Kaveh Madani’s career was in full bloom as he settled into his seat in early 2018 for a flight home from Bangkok to Tehran.
Though raised in the Iranian capital, the civil engineer had left the country at 22 to continue his studies abroad, earning renown for his research into how climate change affects water supplies. About six months earlier, however, the Iranian government had wooed the 36-year-old away from a prestigious professorship in London to a cabinet-level post as deputy environment minister.
Reuters Published: 27 Apr 2021 06:18 PM BdST Updated: 27 Apr 2021 06:51 PM BdST Kaveh Madani, a Rice Senior Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, interacts with students while teaching a class at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, US, January 28, 2020. Reuters Kaveh Madani is photographed at his home in Toronto, Canada, September 14, 2019. Reuters Residents salvage their belongings from the rubble of a damaged house in the aftermath of Cyclone Amphan, in South 24 Parganas district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India, May 22, 2020. Reuters People make their way to a safer place before the cyclone Amphan makes its landfall in Gabura outskirts of Satkhira district, Bangladesh May 20, 2020. Reuters
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