Venezuela Model Not Applicable to Iran

The United States is adopting hostile policies toward both Iran and Venezuela but the model it is using for the Latin American country is not applicable to Tehran, given the economic, geopolitical and domestic structural differences between the two oil-rich countries, an analyst said. 
Washington has designed a set of sanctions against the Venezuelan government with the aim of ousting socialist President Nicolas Maduro. 
US President Donald Trump has barred US customers from paying for Venezuelan oil until a new government led by opposition leader Juan Guaido, the nation’s congress head, could be established.