Tell me the difference please. Which country we compare to?

A dictatorship has a dictator. Who doesn't know that?

TBH modern dictatorships are a lot less obvious in the way you describing.

There are dictatorships, where a very select few people have absolute power, but there’s no visible dictator.

Iran is a country like this. There’s no visible dictator. It’s a game of power between the clergy, the military, and the civil government.

	▲	wongarsu 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Those are more like aristocracies or oligarchies than dictatorships though. Though maybe those are not the best descriptions of Iran either