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Today Venezuela, tomorrow Iran: can the Islamic Republic survive a second Trump presidency?

  • Written by Aaron Pilkington, Fellow at the Center for Middle East Studies, University of Denver
Today Venezuela, tomorrow Iran: can the Islamic Republic survive a second Trump presidency?Better days: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, left, met the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, in Tehran on Oct. 22, 2016. Pool/Supreme Leader Press Office/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Perhaps no one outside of Venezuela or Cuba should care more about the U.S. capture of nominal President Nicolás Maduro than the Islamic Republic of...

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