What is this post even about, Iran still has female parliamentarians and female commissioners and even female ministers sometimes.

They are a counterintuitive leftist-islamist hybrid, they are also Shia and most of your stereotypes about Islam are from Sunnis.

The rights that have been rolled back are about clothing, which doesn't radically differ from West-approved Saudi Arabia or new Syria.

Saying that Iran is more democratic than the USA might be an overstatement, but I'm not sure it's much less.