IRNA said on Thursday that President Hassan Rouhani clearly approved Mohammad Bathaei’s resignation.

Earlier, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported that Bathaei submitted his resignation to the president at a Cabinet meeting.

Since April, some lawmakers had begun to talk about Bathaei’s impeachment, and the resignation of the education minister comes after Iranian teachers held several nationwide strikes over the last two years to protest low wages.

Bathaei took office in August 2017 after the Iranian parliament voted him in as a minister during Rouhani’s second term.