Amir-Abbas Fakhravar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Iranian political activist
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Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
About Amir-Abbas Fakhravar
- Amir-Abbas Fakhravar (Persian: ???? ???? ???????, aka Siavash (Persian: ?????), born July 6, 1975), Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at the Center for the Study of Culture and Security at The Institute of World Politics, is an Iranian jailed dissident, award-winning writer and the recipient of the Annie Taylor Award.
- In 2002 he and Arzhang Davoodi co-founded the Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS), an organization that aims to institute democracy in Iran.
- Fakhravar served as the Secretary General of the Confederation of Iranian Students and President of the "Iranian Freedom Institute" in Washington, D.C.Currently, Fakhravar is the Senate Chairman of National Iranian Congress (NIC) an organization opposing the Islamic Republic regime in Iran. Fakhravar has testified before the Senate Homeland Security committee and the House Foreign Affairs on U.S-Iran relation, Foreign Policy, U.S.
- government broadcasting and Iran's Nuclear issues.
- Fakhravar, among his CIS team, briefed parliament members at the European Parliament and Parliament of Finland, the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Parliament of Israel, Parliament of Germany, and Parliament of Canada.
- He has been a foreign affairs and Iran expert at FOX News, CNN, CBN, The Blaze, Radio Farda and PBS.
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