"Military Dictatorship, Clerical Facade": Fareed Zakaria On Iranian Politics
The United States military intervention in Iran, now in its third week, stands in contrast to the recent operation in Venezuela, according to journalist and geopolitical expert Fareed Zakaria. In an interview with NDTV's Editor-in-Chief Rahul Kanwal, Zakaria described Iran as a markedly different proposition from Venezuela.
"It is a very different country from Venezuela in many respects," Zakaria told NDTV. "The most important respect is that it is an institutionalised dictatorship, not the way Venezuela was, a highly personalistic one, built by [Hugo] Chavez then inherited by [Nicolas] Maduro."
