[2] The Confederation was a politically autonomous organization, made up by sympathizers of different Iranian opposition groups to Shah.
[2] These two groups ISAUS and CIS merged to form the Confederation of Iranian Students National Union.
[2] In 1965, some CISNU leaders were arrested for attempting to murder Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi; as a result the event the group pushed towards more "radicalization".
[3] In 1973, 18,035 Iranian passport holders were officially recorded as living abroad on foreign student visas, 93% of whom were male.
[3] In the United States on October 14, 1971, a bomb exploded around 11:30 PM in the Iranian Consulate San Francisco [Wikidata] located at 3400 Washington Street while the 2500th anniversary of the creation of the Persian empire was being celebrated in Iran.