{"id":346501,"date":"2026-07-10T18:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=346501"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:36:33","slug":"irans-dissident-students-strike-at-the-regimes-digital-nerve-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/irans-dissident-students-strike-at-the-regimes-digital-nerve-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s Dissident Students Strike at the Regime’s Digital Nerve Center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tehran, February 23, 2026 \u2014 Alzahra University students gather in large numbers to commemorate the martyrs of the January uprising<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the chaotic hours of July 8, 2026\u2014the twenty-seventh anniversary of\u00a0<\/span>Iran\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0student uprising\u2014while the clerical dictatorship was preoccupied with the burial theatrics of its Supreme Leader and maintaining a fragile posture following recent missile exchanges with the United States, a network of dissident students executed<\/a> one of the most audacious acts of internal defiance the theocracy has faced in years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Firs<\/span><\/span>t,\u00a0<\/span>in an action carried out by student supporters of the MEK,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>more than 600 government-controlled websites at four major universities went dark and were replaced with the faces of Maryam and Massoud Rajavi<\/a>, <\/span><\/span>leaders of Iran\u2019s organized resistance movement<\/span>. Within hours the operation expanded: 900 sites across twelve universities had been commandeered<\/span>. The front pages of servers belonging to K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tarbiat Modares University, the University of Isfahan, Kharazmi University, the University of Judicial Sciences, and the sprawling Islamic Azad University system\u2014including VADANA, the nationwide virtual-learning platform serving hundreds of thousands of students\u2014all carried the same slogans: “Death to the ruthless King Mojtaba,” “Curse be upon the tyrant Khamenei,” and “Long Live Rajavi”<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The timing was<\/span><\/span>\u00a0surgical. Iran’s security apparatus was stretched between funeral\u00a0<\/span>logistics<\/span>\u00a0and military operations; the internet had been throttled since the January uprising that<\/a>, according to human rights monitors, killed as many as 7,000 people. Yet\u00a0<\/span>student<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>supporters of the MEK<\/span>\u00a0m<\/span><\/span>anaged to breach centralized academic servers and\u00a0<\/span>transmit<\/span>\u00a0evidence of the operation out of the country \u2014 a feat that presupposes months of preparation, compartmented cells, and technical\u00a0<\/span>expertise<\/span>\u00a0the regime has long struggled to eradicate.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone identified faces imprisonment, torture, or execution<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udea8 #Breaking<\/a> \u200cIran: Student Group Supporting PMOI Takes Over 600 University Website Pages<\/p>\n

The group @sarbedaran405<\/a> said it temporarily replaced the homepages of more than 600 webpages across the websites of K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tarbiat Modares University,\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/BdUZPx1wcv<\/a><\/p>\n

— SIMAY AZADI TV (@en_simayazadi) July 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n