Nico­las Rapp—an Art Direc­tor for the Asso­ci­ated Press—has pro­duced a timely and sim­ple info­graphic depict­ing Iran’s “com­plex and unusual polit­i­cal sys­tem”.

Iran’s polit­i­cal sys­tem com­bines ele­ments of democ­racy and reli­gion. Insti­tu­tions con­trolled by the Supreme Leader [elected by the Assem­bly of Experts] are bal­anced by an elected pres­i­dent and parliament.

Wikipedia’s Pol­i­tics of Iran arti­cle (and the accom­pa­ny­ing info­graphic) also helped my under­stand­ing, as did the BBC’s take on the issue.

via Infec­tious Greed