Under the absolute rule of the Velayat-e-Faghih (Supreme clergy), repression, destruction, and corruption are inevitable

In Iran, the supreme leader makes all major local and foreign decisions, pictured to make all right decisions and accountable to anyone. The hegemony and absolute domination of the Supreme Leader is the inviolable foundation of this regime. Iran's constitution, which the Assembly of Experts in 1958 completed, is based on the principle of Velayat-e-Faqih, which late Khomeini later promoted to absolute monarchy. In recent days, the estate media constantly blame the recent wave of uprisings in Khuzestan province or the previous one in Sistan and Baluchestan on the mismanagement of the current government or the previous one. It is meant to portray Khamenei as an authority who has nothing to do with the lack of action and provides a scapegoat for him. Yet, the reality is that the regime's structure gives all authority and decision-making to the Supreme Leader.

Article 5 of the Constitution of the Iranian regime states that the Supreme Leader has supremacy and sovereignty over all state institutions at all times. The Supreme Leader is appointed by the Assembly of Experts, which the Supreme Leader always appoints. Articles 107 and 109 of the constitution are about the leadership of society are by the Supreme Leader. Article 44 is about the country's economic system and private ownerships governed and administered by so-called Islamic laws produced by the state institutions that the Supreme Leader controls.

In later parts of the constitution, the interpretation of the laws is left to the Guardian Council. Khamenei has used this system and its laws to subjugate a large part of Iran's economy to the Revolutionary Guards and its affiliated foundations. It is said that more than 60% of Iran's economy is owned by the Revolutionary Guards, for which it pays no taxes. Militia terrorist groups, such as Lebanese Hezbollah, and Iraq's Hash Alshabi, are financially supported this way. One of Iran's former Presidents had called Revolutionary Guards a government with guns.

In the fourth principle of the constitution, all civil, criminal, financial, administrative, cultural, political, and military laws and regulations are subject to the approval of the Guardian Council, which is itself is appointed by the Supreme Leader. The jurist will veto any law that is not in Supreme Leader's favor and to his liking.

Article 49 also allows the government to possess public property and wealth and inheritance without heirs and wealth resulting from bribery and embezzlement. This vast amount of unaccounted money is gathered in an institution called The Executive Office of Khomeini's Decree, which Khamenei now controls. It is said to be at least $100 billion.

Article 57 places the control of the three branches of government in the hands of the Supreme Leader. This principle states that: "The ruling powers in the Islamic Republic of Iran are the legislature, the executive branch and the judiciary, which is under the absolute authority of the command and Supreme Leader who represents the people."

Articles 122, 130, and 131 also make the regime president an executive, accountable, and appointed governor of the Supreme Leader. There are ample other similar examples in Iran's constitution.

It is too naive to assume that the social and economic problems the people of Iran are facing, especially the recent shortages of water and power outages are caused by the mismanagement of this or that government in Iran, as Iran's media claims. The source of all these problems is rooted in the Velayat-e-Faghih system and ideology. All the essential policies of the country are mandated and manifested by a corrupt supreme leader who is not accountable to any institution or authority. To maintain its superiority and survival, the supreme leader has formed its oppressive apparatus, including the Revolutionary Guards, whose crimes are known to everyone in Iran or the region's countries.

History tells us that a dictatorial regime is not a regime to work towards its people's welfare and comfort, and Iran's dictatorship is no exception. No reforms are possible in Iran until this dictator and its guardian, the Revolutionary Guards, are ousted. Otherwise, expecting any reforms in this regime is nothing more than a mirage.