Iran doesn’t really have the card to play, that is why they decided to summon Pot of Greed, which allow them to draw 3 additional cards from their deck, but because they are the President of Iran, which allow them to draw 3 additional cards from their opponent deck!

I wonder why there could be confusion about the chain of command and who actually has what authority. I wonder how that happened, like if this was an easily foreseeable consequence to some kind of earlier action.