Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses, January 6, 2010: Staunch oppositionists and revolutionaries, many now favor replacement of the regime with secular democracy. One key bloc in this group is the Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS), led by Amir Abbas Fakhravar, who was jailed for five years for participating in July 1999 student riots. CIS, committed to non-violent resistance, is successor of Office of Consolidation Unity, which led those riots. CIS supports international efforts to sanction the regime.
ASSOCIATED PRESS: Amir Abbas Fakhravar, an Iranian exile in Washington, said opposition activists plan to create a "revolutionary council" to lead a "Green Revolution." January 1, 2010
New York Daily news: Call it what it is: Iran's revolution
BY Amir Fakhravar, January 3, 2010
Inside the Green Revolution – Amir Fakhravar's Interview with Jacob Laksin, Front Page Magazine, January 3, 2010
Amir Fakhravar's Speech in “The Islamic Republic of Iran: Multidisciplinary Analyses of Its Theocracy, Nationalism, and Assertion of Power,"
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, Cleveland-Ohio, Nov. 8-10, 2009
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FOX News Interview with Amir Fakhravar, June 16, 2009
US-Iran relations: The role of Students, CIS Event in NOVA, Virginia, April 28, 2009
Fakhravar's Speech on US-Iran Relations: Creating a Sustained platform of Dialogue, Syracuse University, New York, April 20, 2009
Fakhravar's speech on the current situation of Iran, including violations of human rights, Florence, Italy, Dec. 10, 2008
Click here to watch the videoFakhravar's speech at UK's House of Commons, in London, "Confronting the Islamic Republic of Iran: Securing change without using the military option," Oct. 28, 2008
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Fakhravar's interview with CNN, October 28, 2008
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Amir A. Fakhravar speaks against Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations in New York City, Sept. 25, 2008
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Amir A. Fakhravar, Rally against Ahamdinejad in Washington, DC, Sept. 22, 2008
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Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS) Leadership summit in Frankfurt, August 1-4, 2008
Amir A. Fakhravar wins Annie Taylor Journalism Award, Nov. 16, 2007
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The Annie Taylor Award is given to individuals who have shown exceptional courage against great odds in the face of great danger.
Amir A. Fakhravar testifies before U.S Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Iran's Nuclear Impasse: Next Steps (July 20, 2006)
Forbidden IRAN, By Jane Kokan , December 2003
A harrowing report from inside Iran, where FRONTLINE/World reporter Jane Kokan risks her life to secretly film shocking evidence of the torture and murder of students and journalists opposed to the regime. Kokan, in disguise, escapes the constant surveillance of Iranian authorities to interview underground and jailed activists...
Kokan also learns that some 4,000 Iranian student activists were arrested after protests in Tehran and other cities in June 2003 and at least 500 remain in prison for their democratic beliefs. Amir Fakhravar, a student movement leader and hero, is among the men and women Kokan will attempt to make contact with while in Iran. Punished for writing a book promoting democracy and free speech, Fakhravar is serving an eight-year prison sentence at Qasr Prison in Tehran. In a video recorded before he went to prison last year, Fakhravar prepares his mother for his execution, which he believes is imminent. "I don't [want] you to have that sad face. I want [you] at that moment they're hanging me, to stand proudly and say, 'I'm proud of my son,'" he says. In prison, Fakhravar has suffered regular beatings and torture.
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- December 11, 2007, "Regime change from within" (Amir A. Fakhravar, Bassem Eid, Natan Sharansky, Adil Aljuboory & Mithal Al-Alusi)
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On this panel the topic of Fakhravar's speech was "Spreading Islamic Fundamentalism through Iran's Public Schools."
This speech focused on young kids being brainwashed in Islamic Republic schools.
"Understanding Iran's Threat & VOA", December 2, 2007, PalmBeach Florida. Jim Woolsey, Amir Fakhravar and Frank Gaffney were speaker at this event. Click here to watch the video
Jim Woolsey told the audience, "The young hero who spoke to you at lunch time, and I don't use the word "Hero" lightly, but Amir is, the young hero that spoke to you, speaks for a generation of Iranians who do not want to follow the course of events as set out by people of Mesbahe Yazdi and his collegues."
More than 400 people attended “Understanding Iran’s Threat,” a conference hosted by Federation’s Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), along with the World Affairs Council of the Florida Palm Beaches and other local organizations in December 2007. Featured speakers included Jim Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and co-chair of the U.S. committee on present danger; Amir Abbas Fakhravar, Iranian student leader and former prisoner of the Iranian regime; U.S. Rep. Ron Klein (D-Florida), vice chair of the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Middle East; Philippe Vinogradoff, consul general of France in Florida; Frank Gaffney , president and founder of the Center for Security Policy; and Victor Comras, former United Nations Security Council monitor of anti-terrorist sanctions and a leading expert on international law and terrorism financing.
- "Fighting for Democracy in Islamic world," Italy, Rome, December 10-11, 2007. December 10, 2007, there was a panel called, "Extraordinary Lives."
On this panel dissidents and former political prisoners shared their lives and their personal memories.
Amir A. Fakhravar at DepaulUniversity, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, Oct 22, 2007
