Overview
The Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS) was founded by Amir Abbas Fakhravar, Arzhang Davoodi, "Potkin Azarmehr", "Peyman Aref", "Iman Samizadeh" and "Helia Honarmand" and "Roza Radbeh" after the July 9, 1999 student uprising in Iran. The name of this organization was Independent student movement first and in July 2005 it was changed to Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS) . CIS claims to have over 10000 members, with student Federations in Iran, the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Austria, and Turkey. It is the largest International Iranian student movement active both inside and outside of Iran.
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