Backing Maduro, Iran Opens Covid-Proof Supermarket in Venezuela
- Shoppers are sprayed with disinfectant before entering store
- Mysterious products for some, with Persian and English labels
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A supermarket opened in Caracas on Thursday -- not normally a newsworthy event.
But it is the first one owned by a company in Iran, one of the few countries helping Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro evade U.S. sanctions. And it comes equipped with a kind of high-tech Covid shield -- an airport-scanner-like booth that measures shoppers’ temperatures and sprays them with disinfectant mist.