A purely red-herring straw man comparison. The correct one would be to compare the current oppression to the mid 1970s before the Islamist theocracy took power. https://petapixel.com/2022/10/14/photos-show-what-life-looked-like-for-iranian-women-before-1979-revolution/

and to compare Iranian women's current status with Boston, London, NY, Milan, Madrid, Rome, Lisbon in 50 years ago vs today.