SalarHaqq
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How exactly did you find this out? Keep in mind anecdotal experience can be misleading, especially in a case like Iran where propaganda and psy-ops narratives from abroad (by Iran's enemies) happen to be so dominant.
Regarding democracy, Iran is more democratic today than a secular liberal regime could ever hope to be.
In total these riots did not mobilize more than some 200.000 individuals or so over several months. All of whom were belonging to one restricted age group, namely citizens younger than 30 (and older than 14-15), which represents a truly dwindling minority of the Iranian population.
What's more, only 155 cities and towns of Iran out of a total of 2000 (or 2500, don't remember) saw riots. That would be a small fraction as well.
There are studies which suggest otherwise. One research conducted some years ago put Saudi Arabia first in the region when it comes to the percentage of atheists.
Yet another study qualified Iranians as the single most religious people on earth never mind the region.
That's because those same individuals tend to be the very first ones to emigrate. Doesn't imply they're particularly representative of the Iranian population at large, on the contrary. There aren't more than 4 million Iranians abroad, for over 80 million back home.
The causality therefore runs in the opposite direction: it's not that Iran has particularly large numbers of apostates for you to have met some in the west; it's rather that members of this minority current are far more likely to turn their backs on the country, hence why one will come across increased amounts of them around here.
I wouldn't be too sure about that.
Thing is, liberal and culturally westernized Iranians for all intents and purposes ceased giving birth to offspring. They tend to prefer keeping a cat or a dog at home or staying all alone rather than mustering the required courage to raise a child. Right now as we speak, the fertility rate of Iranians is lower than that of the French. Do you realize what this means in terms of generational replacement or rather, absence thereof? Soon there won't be many young people left in Iran, a vast majority of the population will be above 30 years of age.
More importantly: between liberal-minded and religious Iranians, guess who're the ones with the least offspring, comparatively speaking? That's right, liberals and secularists. One to two generations from now, the composition of what remains of Iranian youths will feature greater proportions of religious youngsters and fewer liberals than it does today.
A similar dynamic has been at play in Occupied Palestine among zionists by the way. Orthodox religious zionist have had much higher fertility rates, thence their relative proportion hasn't ceased progressing over the past couple of decades. "Liberals" of Tel Aviv and Haifa who've been protesting against Netanyahu in fact represent a shrinking demographic whose social and political significance will diminish considerably in a few decades. Here's hoping that the zionist regime will collapse earlier than that of course, but I'm merely highlighting the tendency.
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