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Brief on Iran (BOI – 582)

OIAC Brief on Iran

Iranian underground takes down 600 regime websites following US airstrikes
Express, July 8, 2026

As the Iran/US ceasefire broke down last night brave Iranian students humiliated the dictatorship in Tehran by taking over more than 600 government-controlled university websites. The regime of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei – who has made no appearance at week-long funeral rallies for his father Ali Khamenei, backing claims he has been seriously injured in a US air strike – came under fire from American missiles which rained down on 80 strategic sites last early this morning.

At today’s Nato summit in Turkey President Trump announced the US-Iran ceasefire was “over” and added: “I don’t want to deal with them anymore, they’re scum. “They’re sick people, they’re led by sick people… As far as I’m concerned, it’s over.”

At almost the same time, students supporting the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/ MEK) triggered their own raids on the websites.

Sites belonging to state-run K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tarbiat Modares University,and the University of Isfahan were hit as hackers replaced front pages with slogans celebrating the Iranian resistance The slogans included:

“Death to the ruthless King Mojtaba”
Curse be upon the bloodthirsty Khomeini”
“Curse be upon the tyrant Khamenei”

“Long Live Rajavi” (referring to Maryam Rajavi, the president elect of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran.)

Pictures of Maryam Rajavi, and Massoud Rajavi, the leader of the Iranian Resistance, were also posted on the websites.
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Iran: Lack of international justice six months after January protest massacres risks further atrocity crimes
Amnesty International, July 8, 2026

On the six-month anniversary of the January 2026 popular uprising in Iran when security forces carried out mass unlawful killings on an unprecedented scale to crush protests calling for dignity, freedom and an end to the Islamic Republic system, killing thousands of protesters and bystanders between 8-9 January 2026, Diana Eltahawy, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International said:

“Six months after Iran’s security forces unlawfully killed thousands of men, women and children across the country over a two-day period, the international community’s failure to take meaningful action to pursue international justice is indefensible. It helps perpetuate the cycle of deadly repression in which survivors and victims’ families are denied justice, and future atrocities become all but inevitable.

“The world must not allow escalating cycles of crimes under international law against protesters to be erased or overshadowed by ongoing efforts to reach a lasting US‑Iran deal to end the war. The Iranian authorities have faced no consequences for repeatedly and unlawfully using intentional lethal force on a mass scale to crush and punish dissent. The international community’s failure to pursue international justice for these serious crimes has emboldened the Iranian authorities to threaten further mass killings by ‘trigger-ready’ security forces targeting protesters and dissidents they label as ‘enemies’.
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Ramesh Sepehrrad Joined ‪@NewsNation‬ to discuss Khamenei’s funeral and more
At Khamenei’s funeral, top IRGC general emerges from months in hiding as the regime struggles to project strength.
Dr. Ramesh Sepehrrad breaks down why the regime’s real fear isn’t external—it’s the growing, organized resistance from within. The West must listen to the Iranian people.

Maryam Rajavi at Free Iran 2026: No to War, No to Appeasement, Yes to Resistance | 21 Jun 2026
Appeasement does not work—not under Nazism, and not in Iran.
Maryam Rajavi delivers a powerful message to the world: the only true solution to the crisis is the overthrow of religious fascism by the Iranian people and their organized Resistance Units. Our pledge is clear: we do not seek power for ourselves, but to transfer sovereignty to its rightful owners—the people of Iran.

 

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