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Founded: 2011
Ownership
MintPress News was founded in 2011 (launched January 2012) by Mnar Muhawesh (now Mnar Adley), who remains its director. It began as a for-profit company with start-up money from anonymous 'angel investors' that the founder has consistently declined to name, and it later restructured. Reporting links it financially to the Serena Shim Award/PressTV-connected milieu, raising persistent questions about undisclosed backers.
Funding
Funding comes from undisclosed private investors and reader/crowdfunding donations; outlets have reported grants channeled to MintPress from an organization (the Serena Shim Award) tied to interests aligned with Iranian state media, and the site has faced deplatforming from payment processors. Its exact financial backers remain opaque.
Affiliation & stance
MintPress espouses a strongly anti-Western, anti-Israel, pro-Assad/Iran/Russia editorial line and has been characterized by mainstream sources as a conspiracy-promoting outlet whose funding it refuses to disclose. Because of its opaque ownership and documented financial ties to state-aligned (Iranian) interests rather than transparent commercial independence, it is best classified as DEPENDENT (corrects the file's INDEPENDENT guess), with a far-left/anti-establishment lean.
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