Mnar Adley

Mnar Adley is an award-winning journalist and editor and is the founder and director of MintPress News. She is also president and director of the non-profit media organization Behind the Headlines. Adley also co-hosts the MintCast podcast and is a producer and host of the social media video series Behind The Headlines.  Adley is a recipient of the Women's Institute for the Freedom of the Press Award and the Serena Shim Award for independent journalism. Adley is a regular speaker on responsible journalism and Big Tech censorship. She started her career as an independent multimedia journalist covering Midwest and national politics while focusing on civil liberties and social justice issues posting her reporting and exclusive interviews on her blog MintPress, which she later turned MintPress into the global news source it is today. In 2009, Adley also became the first American woman to wear the hijab to anchor/report the news in American media. Contact Mnar at [email protected]. Follow Mnar on Twitter at @mnarmuh In 2009, Adley also became the first American woman to wear the hijab to anchor/report the news in American media. Contact Mnar at [email protected]. Follow Mnar on Twitter at @mnarmuh

Dr. Mohammad Marandi Interview: Khamenei Assassination, Strait of Hormuz Closure & Betrayal of Arab Nations

In this week’s MintCast podcast hosted by Mnar Adley, she is joined by Dr. Mohammed Marandi — a professor of Orientalism and history at the University of Tehran to discuss the latest on the ground in Iran in the aftermath of the US and Israeli assasisation of Iran’s supreme leader and marjaa’ Ali Khamenei and other war updates including the closing of the straight of Hormuz and the response from Arab states in the region.

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It’s being called a war between good vs evil. The epstein class vs a nation that dares to stand up against US-Israeli imperialism: Iran. The US and Israel launched a full scale war on Iran on Saturday, destroying schools, residential buildings, and assassinating political and military leaders.  Iran's supreme leader and marjaa' Ayatollah

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Scott Ritter: US vs Iran: What War Would Really Look Like –Military Power, Oil Shock & Global Fallout

War with Iran has been the goal of both neoconservative and Zionist factions in Washington for decades. With an increasingly belligerent and erratic Trump in the White House, it could be that the warmongers finally achieve their dream.

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By Mnar Adley
US war against Iran

The U.S. is on the brink of attacking Iran over phony nuclear weapons claims. Repeating tired Iraq War propaganda, the Trump administration is fearmongering about Iran’s weapons of mass destruction capabilities, attempting to convince the public that if they don’t act now, it will be too late. What would such a war look like? Joining the show

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Israel Backed Rioters fail regime change operation – Interview with Dr. Mohammad Marandi 

Western media sold Iran’s protests as a democratic uprising. Behind the scenes, US-funded NGOs, Israeli intelligence claims, and recycled regime change tactics told a very different story.

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anti-government protest Tehran, Iran Marandi

Iran is in the crosshairs of both Western corporate media and the U.S. and Israeli governments. What started as a peaceful protest against rising inflation and the cost of living quickly exploded into something much more dangerous: an attempt to topple the government. Corporate media framed this as a democratic uprising against a viciously

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The Regime Change Machine Is Turning on Iran Again

From NGO casualty counts to diaspora propaganda, the same forces that destroyed Iraq and Syria are exploiting unrest inside Iran.

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Police speak to demonstrators as they hold placards, banner and flags as they protest outside the Iranian Embassy in London, Jan. 16, 2026. Alastair Grant | AP

Make no mistake: the U.S. and Israel are ready to seize this moment in Iran’s mass protests to drive a regime change operation. And it’s not even subtle. Trump has openly threatened airstrikes against Iran — and he’s told protesters to keep going, promising: “Help is on the way.” And Israeli security analysts are already gaming out a collapse

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Venezuelan Journalist Diego Sequera Destroys Trump’s Monroe Doctrine

As Washington kidnaps Venezuela’s elected president, independent journalist Diego Sequera explains why Trump’s escalation is backfiring at home and abroad.

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Maduro 96

It is a monumental act of war. After being kidnapped and flown to the United States, President Nicolás Maduro has pled not guilty to spurious drugs charges in New York – even as U.S. government documents admit that Venezuela is not a major drugs producer, and prosecutors concede that Maduro’s supposed Cartel of the Suns never existed. Moreover,

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Maduro on Trial & Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’

From the courtroom to the newsroom, Nicolás Maduro’s trial exposes how U.S. force is laundered through media language and legal theater, reviving an old doctrine of hemispheric control.

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Maduro

The trial of Nicolás Maduro has begun. On January 3, the elected president of Venezuela was kidnapped and flown to the U.S. to face drug smuggling charges in a case that is already falling apart. Prosecutors have already admitted that the “Cartel of the Suns” – the drugs organization Maduro supposedly led – does not exist. Moreover, the supposed

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The Empire’s Regime Change Blueprint: Lie, Steal, Gaslight, Repeat

What would happen if a world power abducted a foreign president? This article explores U.S. actions toward Venezuela, the legal implications, and why international law appears to stop where U.S. interests begin.

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Narco Lies

The Trump administration has just violated international law — specifically Article 2, Section 4 of the United Nations Charter — by kidnapping the sitting president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and placing him on trial under drug-trafficking charges that critics across the Global South and international legal scholars describe as politically

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