The US system is superior to Iran. Discuss

To continue the comparison between the US and Iranian structures of power, in the US, it was possible until recently to note that secular officials make decisions about the warp and woof of daily life and then proceed to execute those decisions.

And it was right and proper to note that in Iran, the Supreme Leader, who is (like the US president) commander-in-chief of the armed forces, can appoint and dismiss the heads of the judiciary and the state radio and television networks, as well as the supreme commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

So, until recently, the stark differences between the US and Iran systems was a point well made.

The IRGC incidentally was established by Iran’s first Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in April 1979 and tasked with safeguarding the theocratic regime against threats both internal and external. The Iranian Supreme Leader’s right — to appoint and dismiss the IRGC head — makes him supremely powerful.

Add to that the reality tha…