In the book "Self-construction and development" he said hired as research staff scientist at Bell Laboratories and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1960s. Chamran was one of the senior members of the Freedom Movement led by Mehdi Bazargan in the 1960s. He was part of the radical external wing together with Ebrahim Yazdi, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh and Ali Shariati. Following graduation, Chamran went to Cuba to receive military training.