Iran’s Supreme Leader Mocks U.S. Electoral College With Hilarious Infographic

After a tempestuous presidential election in the Islamic Republic of Iran, there has been a lot of Western reporting on how the Iranian political system works. Evidently the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been unimpressed with the criticism his country’s political system has received from representatives of nations like the United States. On Monday, the Supreme Leader took to his twitter account, which tweets almost entirely in Farsi, to send out a rare English language message and graphic mocking America’s Electoral College for being far more complicated and less direct than the Iranian system.

“How is it possible to become #USpresident with fewer votes but with the help of #gerrymandering?” Khamenei wrote, displaying an impressive command of hash tags.

Khamenei’s tweet was accompanied with this graphic showing how Iran’s system of direct democracy is more easily understood and les subject to corruption than the American system.

Well, in the spirit of open political criticism, we have an infographic that we would like to share with Khamenei, the unelected Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic.

As you can see, Khamenei does not derive his authority from gerrymandering – itself, a democratic process. His authority is supposedly derived by his closeness to a higher power. As such, he can even exercise “approbative supervision” of the electorate itself.

We hope this exchange of infographics has been informative.

Photo courtesy of AFP

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