Western media portrayed Iran’s protests as a democratic uprising crushed by state violence. But behind the headlines lies a familiar regime change playbook.

In this MintCast episode, Mnar Adley is joined from Tehran by Seyed Mohammad Marandi, professor at the University of Tehran, to examine how U.S.-funded NGOs, intelligence-linked narratives, and corporate media helped reframe economic protests into a foreign-backed destabilization campaign.

The conversation breaks down the role of Human Rights Activists in Iran, its funding by the National Endowment for Democracy, and the historical continuity between today’s information war and past CIA-led regime change operations in Iran.

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The United States has crossed a historic line.

After Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was kidnapped and flown to New York to face collapsing drug charges, Washington’s regime-change strategy has entered a dangerous new phase.

MintPress director Mnar Adley is joined by Caracas-based journalist Diego Sequera to break down the legal farce behind the case, the role of a compromised U.S. witness, and why Trump’s revival of the Monroe Doctrine is provoking outrage across Venezuela and the wider region.

This is a first-hand account from inside a country under siege, and a warning about what comes next.

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What would happen if Russia or China abducted the sitting president of the United States? Emergency U.N. sessions. Sanctions. Threats of war.

In this episode of Behind The Headlines, Mnar Adley examines why the forcible seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is being treated by Western media as a political development rather than a grave breach of international law. The episode breaks down U.S. sanctions policy, media narratives, historical precedents, and the broader geopolitical campaign against Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution.

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