 Kasrai was shortly imprisoned in the aftermath of 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh.He was a founding member of the Iranian Writers’ Association, and one of its elected secretaries in the first four years of its existence, from 1968 to 1971.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.