How US-Funded NGOs and Media Turned Iran’s Protests Into a Regime Change Campaign

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The episode explores how U.S.-funded NGOs and media narratives transformed Iran's economic protests into a regime change campaign.

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 Ri...

People in this episode

Host: Mnar Adley

Guest: Seyed Mohammad Marandi

Topics covered

• Iran protests
• regime change
• U.S. foreign policy
• media manipulation

Keywords

• NGOs
• intelligence
• corporate media
• destabilization

Mentioned in this episode

Places: US, Iran, Tehran, U.S.-funded

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