role of women

One of the most depressing aspects of the US feud with Iran – of which Donald Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia serves as merely one more example – is that by any objective measure Iran is a far more democratic and modern society, observing political and social norms far closer to those of the West, than Saudi Arabia is or can ever be.
Here are some of the differences between the two countries:
(1) Saudi Arabia is an autocratic monarchy; Iran is an Islamic Republic;