The World's Worst Dictators

[Patroklos]

Yeah. I agree. I also think Cuba shouldn't be on it as well.

You are a dictator because of how you achieve and maintain power, not because of what they do while in power.

Cuba is unquestionable a dictatorship, Iran is not. It is something just as bad though.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Cuba is unquestionable a dictatorship, Iran is not..

Only in the sense that it just has a single political party instead of two. But yeah. I'd agree it should be considered to be a dictatorship.

It is something just as bad though.

Heh. Compared to the US? Neither country has even hinted at illegally invading and occupying a sovereign country based on lies.

While neither country is a bastion of human rights, I simply don't think they are really all that bad in the grand scheme of things. There are plenty worse countries in the world today, and many of them are our allies. Their great crimes appear to be that they nationalized industries which were literally destroying their countries while keeping them effective prisoners in their own countries. Iran did it in 1948 under a democratically elected government, and Cuba did it after overthrowing Batista, whom the US government should have never let overthrow the legitimate Cuban government in 1956 in the first place.

 

[Arwon]

I would personally describe Iran as an illiberal democracy.

 

[Dachs]

I would personally describe Iran as an illiberal democracy.

Sounds good to me. For whatever reason I keep thinking of the UK before the Reform Acts, since both are essentially controlled by notables (in Britain, it was the aristocracy and richer oligarchs, while in Iran it is the religious nobility).

 

[ainwood]

Moderator Action: Moved to World History

 

[Sharwood]

How does this qualify as history? It's about current dictators.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

We've already done this subject to death a dozen times already fr memory.

Closed.