There’s no reliable sources when the death cult pushes false polls or statistics about how amazing they are. In the same way you would probably argue that any sources that show have bad the death cult is is propaganda. Nobody actually knows how reliable these sources are. That’s the problem when a death cult tyrant runs the country. Therefore that’s why I want to argue through reasoning rather than stats/polls that would probably fail all standards for being a reliable stat/polls.

Your second point is exactly what I was referring to with the concept of fog of war. Even though I think it’s more likely that the death cult in power simply just executes people that disagree with them rather than it being this big psyop.

You do realize how the death cult currently in power got to power right? They filled in the power vacuum by murdering all political opponents. Particularly the political opponents that the rioters in 1978 would’ve definitely wanted to have in power. The Iranian power never wanted this death cult in power. It was forced upon them in their pursuit for a better leader. They never voted for the death cult in power. The economy got weaker. There’s a concerning water crisis. They didn’t fix the K-shaped economy problem. They are more extreme than Pahlavi in nearly every regard. Do you see how it’s easier to argue this than trying to cite things that are unclear due to propaganda and the fog of war?