 Kasrai took part in 1977 Tehran 
Goethe-Institut nights of poetry readings, a noted public event with dissident overtones in the pre-Iranian Revolution period.As a result of a post-revolution crackdown on Tudeh supporters, he left Iran in 1983, resided in Kabul until late 1987, in Moscow until 1995, and then in Vienna.Kasrai was elected to the Tudeh Party Political Bureau in 1986.