The US scholar, who has researched RSS since the time of its 2nd sarsanghchalak MS Golwalkar, said the organisation would prefer someone 'moderate', who looks at 'Indians as Indians'.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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