So in your myopic view, the Iranian regime- which is run by a Supreme Ayatollah is somehow legit?
No more than Wall Street running this country...
Were you aware that there are no civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ people in Iran?
So? Not that we do great in that department ourselves, but that has nothing to do with whether or not the government, which has an elected president and parliament, is legitimate or not.
And you call their country somehow just?
No, I call it one where the majority is happy with the way things are. The thing was, WE imposed the Shah on them, and he suppressed anyone who might have created a western style democracy. The Ayatollahs he couldn't touch, because of their religious status. It's not so much that they "Took" power, than it was that it fell to them.
The way to normalize Iran is to not isolate it. Isolating it as we have since 1979, puts it into a seige mentality, where anyone who questions the Ayatollahs must be aligned with the west.